“We learn, in time, to allow our essential senses to become dulled, so that the fact that a single moment of human experience is more of a gift than all those we might imagine – escapes our awareness. We see, then, with a strange blindness that masquerades as seeing, but is nearly its opposite.

But the senses (and abilities) are the deep truth of our actual inheritance. To recover them, we must scrape away the ideological, linguistic and cultural armor we acquired in youth, and recover the reverence and wonder that are our true nature.

All other desires are but the shadow of this one…”

— infraheard