Wish I'd said that - May 22, 2020

“At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise or wonder; so that a man sitting in a chair might suddenly understand that he was actually alive, and be happy.”

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by David W. Fagerberg in First Things March 2000