Nonlinear behavior

Can you be overwhelmed by beauty? Can one moment of realization, one moment of true seeing redeem? I think it can. One moment, redeeming years of suffering. Nonlinear behavior.

But really, it's not that one moment as much as all the work you've done up to it; all the ways in which you have changed and transformed, all the ways in which you have grown through the difficulties you've encountered; it's all of this long, hard work that allows you to feel redeemed as if all of a sudden.

Peace