Cloud Nine

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To say you are "on cloud nine" or "walking on air" are expressions for feeling highly inspired, in love with life and existence. In an NPR radio interview with the Reverend William Sloane Coffin the chaplain of Yale University explains the expression as a spiritual state of grace. As human beings "our value is a gift, not an achievement, that love does not seek value, but creates it." He explains that we do not climb up to Cloud Nine ourselves, we are levitated there by the love of others, that somebody else did for you what you could not do for yourself.