What are the motifs in Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf?

"Moments of being" are, in the implications of Virginia Woolf's writing and in the outright statements of the editor's introduction, the ultimate source of truth in memory, in present experience and in art. They are defined, Virginia suggests, as moments of existence in which a shock (of emotion, of insight, of sensual experience) triggers an awareness of a larger truth beyond that of day-to-day function. Moments of being are a spiritual truth as opposed to the mere physical truth of what one sees, hears, touches or tastes.