The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me
As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom.
To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.