I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
amen, beauty, belief, consciousness, creation, curiosity, disbelief, energy, enoughness, epiphany, exploration, exultant, faith, fate, fearless, fire, free, freedom, gaps, god, grace, growth, hallelujah, humility, illumination, intricacy, joy, joyful, joyfulness, life-force, light, living-in-the-present-moment, mindfulness, multiplicity, mystery, nature, philosopher-s-stone, philosophy, poem, poet, poetry, power, praise, prayer, prayers, praying, religion, religious-diversity, science, seeing, seeking, soul, spirit, stalking-the-gaps, the-tree-with-the-lights-in-it, tolerance, walking, watching, wonder