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Your quotation from Alexander Solzhenitsyn brings to mind C.S. Lewis' testimony of a holy longing for the Other Garden, and how that ingraspable real desire eventually led him to all the Truth of God. I read a wonderful passage in Randy Alcorn's book Heaven this morning, and was wondering where I could share it (; This place seems appropriate! On pages 54-55 he quotes from his own previous book Safely Home, a fictionalized story of the same truths this non-fiction work on heaven illuminates:

Compared to what he now beheld, the world he'd come from was a land of shadows, colorless and two-dimensional. This place was fresh and captivating, resonating with color and beauty. He could not only see and hear it, but feel and smell and taste it. Every hillside, every mountain, every waterfall, every frolicking animal in the fields seemed to beckon him to come join them, to come from the outside and plunge into the inside. This whole world had the feel of cool water on a blistering August afternoon. The light beckoned him to dive in with abandon, to come join the great adventure.
"I know what this is," Quan said.
"Tell me," said the Carpenter.
"It's the substance that casts all those shadows in the other world. The circles there are copies of the spheres here. The squares there are copies of the cubes here. The triangles there are copies of the pyramids here. Earth was a flatland. This is...well, the inside is bigger than the outside, isn't it? How many dimensions are there?"
"Far more than you have seen yet," the King said, laughing.
"This is the Place that defines and gives meaning to all places," Li Quan said. "I never imagined it would be like this."