Sublime

‘one’s humanity is simultaneously shared and singular’ (Jackson, 2002: 142).

People are living into identities that aren’t accepted or even recognized by society at large. Their insistence on self-definition creates space for all of us to be more self-determined.

It was the notion that my interior life was somehow real—that the purely subjective experience that I had once believed to be my soul was not some ghostly illusion but a process that contained an essential and irreducible identity.

numinous

Litvinoff’s life was defined by a delight in the weight of the real; his friend’s by a rejection of reality, with its army of flat-footed facts.

On Not Being Able to Paint.

Solitude can happen to anyone: we are all at risk.

The True Self is bound up with bodily aliveness.

their sharply individualized energies seem to operate outside the established social arrangement.