“ Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy. ”
It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.
~ Laurens Van Der Post
Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that even if it does not produce the courage of a hero at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.