I haven't read Borges, but your question makes me wonder...some connections are so profound, talking at a social level trivializes them...Some of the books I have read have really meant so much to me, and if I went up to the author and said 'Oh, I so love your books' like any other groupie, and they said 'thanks' it feels like it might bring it all down a notch. All too human in a way. So that's my theory on why he didn't speak!
Lisa

Jonathan, this is beautiful! I can relate to the comment about when you were young, and your naturally meditative moments, "Like something I needed to do without knowing it." That little bit of longing, and yet (as you talked about later), trying to find that feeling right here right now also.

Ha ha, well this certainly is interesting! I have to say I started out very intellectual/philosophical in my twenties, and my original pull to spirituality was along those lines. But I've moved away from that, because 1) I don't really trust my rational mind anymore and 2) Life is more fun without all the pondering. So I'm more about moments and experience now.