Arthur Brooks

That's not it.

It's because it's this deep metaphysical experience.

Most religions believe, as Montaigne of Diotima, Socrates' prophetess suggested, that romantic love is the beginning of an antenna to the divine.

And most religions believe that if you're in a serious marriage and you deny your spouse love, you're denying your spouse God's love.

That's how right-brained and complex this actually is.

You can understand it plenty well.

Not really, I know.

I know, I know.

It's interesting too, you know, and Sam and I have had one conversation more or less along these lines.

He's the most soulful atheist I've ever met.

He really is.

He's a soulful guy.

I really have

He'd be a great believer apart from the lack of belief.

But that's the point because his soulfulness would seem, might seem on the outside to contradict his uber rationality as an atheist, but it doesn't because these things coexist.

These things can reside next to each other and because Sam's brain has two hemispheres to it, so does mine, so does all of ours.

No, I don't.

And transcendence is important because it, once again, it contradicts mother nature's tyranny.

So Mother Nature wants you in the psychodrama of your utter stultifying crispness from moment to moment to moment.

My job, my flights are late.