Rick Bass - Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wh

Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world or some little place in time where things just feel so right and huge and powerful and easy that I will have the perhaps blasphemous thought maybe there are layers of heaven.

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Bass, Rick. The Book of Yaak. Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

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