John Piper:
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.
Classic. He says everyone has a moment like that-completely drawn out in wonder. Once when fishing in Canada we saw the Northern lights. Wow, I thought the Russians were invading!