coming back to me. I reconnected. Something like that…I think it’s like…what a person experiences after spending many days in a monk’s cell. The world suddenly appears to you in all of its infinite detail. All of its contours. Its secret becomes as accessible as any other object—say, a vase—but in order to understand this, it has to be painful. How can you understand something unless it hurts? It has to come with a great deal of pain…
