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One can encounter the most perfect and complete imaginable things right in the midst of this world.
Perfect phenomena, perfect scenes, perfect ...
Religious people might interpret this as the presence of God.
Non-religious people can at least recognize or experience that certain scenes or phenomena possess something extraordinary — a strange fascination, a kind of magic or enchantment.
“This scene, this phenomenon, penetrates deeply into my memory and leaves traces.”
(“Individual moments can possess a peculiar kind of perfection without everything having to be objectively ‘perfect.’ An encounter, a certain light, a conversation, a landscape, a gesture — and suddenly something feels so profoundly right that the moment seems to fall out of the ordinary flow of time.”
— in a certain sense, a kind of coherence or rightness that is difficult to put into words.
“‘This scene … penetrates deeply into my memory and leaves traces.’ That is often precisely how we recognize that a moment was extraordinary. Not because it was spectacular, but because even years later it still possesses an unusual density. We remember a look, the atmosphere, sounds, perhaps even a particular bodily sensation. Such scenes almost become inner points of reference.”)
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