"Every once in a while, the curtain of the ordinary parts and we touch the miraculous — the sense that there is another world not beyond this one but within it, a mirror-world any glimpse of which returns our own more luminous and full of wonder.

"This can never be willed, but one can be willing for it — a willingness woven of two things: total wakefulness to reality and total openness to possibility."  --Maria Popova