"The spiritual connections at the boundery between pain and pleasure were unchartered regions of awareness until Michael Fay opened this new reality frontier to westerners. The parallax between sensory acuteness and religious experience was quoted most eloquently by Michael when he stated seeing, 'A naked virgin Mary amidst stars' at each ephemeral instant at which the Ratan Cane penetrated his flesh."
"I truly think that at this moment, Michael was in a state of existential wisdom. A state which is familiar in the Asian experience, but new to us"