“In one sense—and this sounds a little hyper-sentimental—but from one angle almost every moment strikes me that way—the sheer Mystery of existence itself, the sheer and ultimate unknowability of everything, makes every moment a “holy-shit-how-did-this-happen?” moment. I’m certainly known as a philosopher, but what really strikes me the most is not the knowability of each moment, but the sheer unknowability of each moment—the magical Mystery tour of our entire trajectory—it’s awesome, amazing, unbelievable, miraculous, and completely unknowable in the last analysis—what the Christian mystics call “divine ignorance” and Zen calls “don’t-know mind”—those words are applying to the ultimate Reality! An integral approach is not a way to know it all, but to try to include in what we know as much as is humanly possible, because the only way to know anything about this ultimate Mystery is to know as much as we humanly can—the less we leave out, the more Mystery we embrace. It’s like Socrates is credited with saying: the more you know, the more unknowable you realize it all is (Socrates was said to be the wisest man alive because he realized he knew nothing at all). So every moment is a type of “holy-shit!” moment—that anything is happening at all is just miraculous, totally holy-shit miraculous.”