“Invisible Connections”
“If I were asked to sum up my status in the world at that time, I would say that I felt intimately connected with something that wasn’t there and only remotely connected to a lot of things that were. What I mean is that the invisible spirit behind nature drew me powerfully into its embrace, the untouchable spirit inside my mind pulled me inward with irresistible force, but the people surrounding me seemed almost of another breed. I simply didn’t connect with the world in the same way that they did. They shared an appreciation of the importance of words and events that I considered trivial. I was engrossed by that invisible something that remained beyond their sphere of perception.”