{High Sensitivity}[28th October 1990]

[Redbook8:71][19901028:1032b]{High Sensitivity}[28th October 1990]

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That ‘high sensitivity’:* I return (because I am sure I have recounted this before, even in so many words) to that image of my younger self – really until about the age of 32 and the start of self-employment – as a Soul open to all spiritual winds: blown first one way and then another by the gentlest of breezes,*** so that a phrase of music or of poetry, a painting perhaps, a moment on stage or in film, the misfortune or reconciliation of others, or a glimpse of the wholeness of things – any of these, for example, might raise up in me great tides of emotion and empathy, swelling in tears and breaking in laughter and joy; to little of which could I allow expression, and for almost none of which I had any explanation at all.

*ref [[Redbook8:70][19901028:0050]{Poor relations}[28th October 1990],] 70

**{But see [next ts entry, next page in same journal entry] 72}

***To me, a gale

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