I'm back. Must sleep but conversations to ensue...

Epiphany = personal experience relative to the beholders perspective on the universe.

Ergo they only happen to you when you experience them.

There are infinite opportunities for epiphany...

Your eyes are open. It is said that when a monk reaches a state of enlightenment, they experience a constant epiphany.

I fully believe that we experience the grandest epiphany when we die and return to the universal fold. We return to the state that the enlightened live in.

Which brings the question, why be enlightened all the time if that's where we're going to end up anyways? Is the point of life to experience the human condition from our narrow point of perspective with little glimpses into the great truths or is it to try and attain the state we arrive at ultimately in the end?

A better comparison is to look capturing a place or instant with a photograph versus seeing it with your eyes in all of its splendor and ugliness. Sometimes the photograph, as a focused and framed recording, is more beautiful and captures the emotional essence of the moment better than just walking around looking at the place. To be alive as a human is a chance to experience the universe from a unique and focused perspective, delve down into the micro before returning to the macro...

i would say it depends on the age of the soul