Profound devotion is, itself, a state of blissful awakening. I do not here suggest religion, but instead, a way of relation… which may arise in the love of those romantic partners capable of it… but is perhaps most common when one is deeply intimate with Nature, in some vista or specific element. As when a downed bee is warmed within my palm, and rises once more to flight… or when a being rescues and adores another… or in the moment of mutual recognition and awareness which rings one’s entire core and life as if it were a bell comprised of the souls of all beings at once…