Is There Something More Transcendental Than That?

I had a kind of initiation into a very quiet and very personal mysticism, for want of a better word. It led me to the sense that there is something miraculous in the inside of a person that manages to exist against all odds. And it gave me a sympathy for the extreme faith of people who go through extreme ing. I always thought, if you're suffering that much, how can you believe in something divine?...