utterance, meaning

(Those moments that no one forgets, situations in which there is a failure of the associations that normally allow us to reflect our lives whole within our understanding, as though the two things were running along side by side and at the same speed - coming confusingly close to one another. (...) And there are other things too, governed by the incommensurability of experience and understanding. But it is always the case that we experience in one moment, whole and unquestioning, becomes incomprehensible and confused when we seek to bind it to our enduring ownership with the chains of thought. And what looks big and inhuman while our words reach it from afar, becomes simple and ceases to be unsettling the moment it enters our life's field of action.)