The concept of the marvelous begins to take form when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, the miracle.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.
Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.
From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.