“He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.”

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

I said, "Of course!"
After doing yoga and sadhana with Sri Aurobindo, the Mother experienced a visible physical change, quoted in " Pondicherry http://www.searchforlight.org/TheMother_lifeSketchpart6.htm, also in The Mother: The Story of Her Life - George Van Vrekhem (2000) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=On_XAAAAMAAJ, p. 201

Source: Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Source: Songs My Mother Taught Me

Night (1960)

What Men Live By (1881)
Context: I thought: "I am perishing of cold and hunger, and here is a man thinking only of how to clothe himself and his wife, and how to get bread for themselves. He cannot help me. When the man saw me he frowned and became still more terrible, and passed me by on the other side. I despaired, but suddenly I heard him coming back. I looked up, and did not recognize the same man: before, I had seen death in his face; but now he was alive, and I recognized in him the presence of God.

Source: Middlesex