Thought for the week: Neil Morgan is in the thin of it

‘Perhaps the quintessentially thin experience is the act of human kindness at its spontaneous, miraculous, best.’

by Neil Morgan 15th January 2021

We all have some idea of ‘thick’ and ‘thin’ places. ‘Thick’ places are intrusive, irritating and bothersome. We have to fit in to them, to change, and accommodate ourselves to them. For me that’s noisy cities, especially busy train stations. By contrast, ‘thin’ places are those where what is – what is physically real, what we can get hold of – somehow thins out, to allow access to another world. We sense this spiritual dimension alongside, or behind, the physical reality of a place, in the same way as we might find a backing to a picture.