Sometimes in a random moment, things come into exquisite order.  A child lies daydreaming in the grass.  Her eyes go to a yellow blur in the green, a dandelion that turns into a portal.  Years later she will say, “I felt the universe open up to me.  The moment was immensely peaceful, ecstatic…like the truth of the way things really are.  It had the quality of a new revelation and yet something I had always known, even before I was born.”

 

Look at this, you whisper as you see something about the universe you’ve never seen before.  And look at this, you whisper too, seeing yourself seeing it.  The universe is bigger than it was a minute ago, and so are you.  What are these sudden, palpable truths we call epiphanies?  And – living in this time of great urgency – how can we make real-life use of them when they arrive, bringing insight that feels at once revelatory and familiar?