In an unusually accommodating personal reflection, Menachem Magidor, president of The Hebrew University, wrote that although he was a secular Jew, he felt a connection to a "transcendental, sublime presence" the first time he visited the mount after 1967.
Simply as an example of design prowess -- in the way it turns well-worn assumptions about skyscraper form almost literally inside out, and as a looming, sublime presence on the smoggy Beijing skyline -- the tower is a tour de force.
Whenever this spectre appeared before me, I felt a powerful, sublime and exalted presence, but surprisingly little fear.
Virginia Woolf wrote of him: "We are in the presence of sublime imagination; now rambling through one of the finest lumber rooms in the world — a chamber stuffed from floor to ceiling with ivory, old iron, broken pots, urns, unicorns' horns, and magic glasses full of emerald lights and blue mystery".
This of course is Lena, played by Penélope Cruz in a state of almost hyperreal gorgeousness, a sublime beauty in whose presence Almodóvar's camera goes into a kind of swooning trance, and whose exquisiteness consists at least partly in its fabricated quality; she is part of cinema's magnificent artifice.
Now we are in the presence of sublime imagination; now rambling through one of the finest lumber rooms in the world a chamber stuffed from floor to ceiling with ivory, old iron, broken pots, urns, unicorns' horns, and magic glasses full of emerald lights and blue mystery.
Tibetan Buddhism's esoteric Diamond Path reveals that right now is the perfect time, right here is the perfect place, our presence is sublime, it is the perfectly appropriate teaching lesson and each of us is the ideal person to be where we are right now.
Together, these pictures reveal the undeniable presence of the sublime in everyday life.
His work explores the presence of the sublime in everyday life and his website is stuffed full of these beautiful snippets.
Although this is a painting of tranquillity, family life even, it throbs with the shadowy presence of a power sublime and incommensurable.
We may not have been sweet talkin' enough to get good lovin' at that moment, but being in the presence of music so sublime was just as good.
