InsaneJournal

“ecstasy and injury —who but the Russians would devise a word describing feelings the mind thinks of as incompatible but the heart knows belong together. Umilenie. It is an old fashioned word you might find in Russian Bibles and Dostoyevsky, describing a state of being in which you have been taken down, brought to you knees, humbled—when kaleidoscopic emotions of tenderness, humility, sadness, and rapture all wash though you….”