"If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me."

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Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.

— Bell Hooks