“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.” – Marshall McLuhan
“Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.” – Jack Kerouac
“the boon is to be the inauguration of a new age of the human spirit: of secular spirituality, sustained by self-responsible individuals acting not in terms of general laws supposed to represent the will or way of some personal god or impersonal eternity, but each in terms of his own developing realization of worth,” in accord with “a life responsible to itself, to its own supreme experiences and expectations of value, realized through trials in truth, loyalty, and love, and by example redounding, then, to the inspiration of others to like achievement.” – Joseph Campbell
“Poets see it [that the ‘Kingdom of the Father is spread upon the earth’]. That is the faculty of poets. And great biographers and novelists have always recognized that, in the lives of people growing up, initiations transpire through the revelations of chance, according to the readiness of the psyche.” – Joseph Campbell
“In analysis the suprapersonal process can begin only when all the personal life has been assimilated to consciousness. In this way psychology opens up a standpoint and types of experience that lie beyond ego consciousness. . . . It is a development beyond the conscious ego, an experience of the personal way into the suprapersonal – a widening of the psychic horizons of the individual so as to include what is common to all mankind.” – C. G. Jung
“They [i.e. “the hours of God’s visitation”] are not only rare occasions, they must need be so for our sakes, for no creature can bear often or for long the full nearness of God’s majesty in its beatitude and in its awfulness.” – Rudolf Otto
“‘Silent Worship’, in the fully-formed character in which the Quakers practise it, is not possible in a ‘Church’, as we understand the word to-day, but only within a narrower limits of a more intimate ‘Brotherhood of the Spirit’”, “a circle of self-dedicated enthusiasts”
In silent worship it is possible to participate of “a tender mystery, restricted to a fellowship of brothers, pertaining to a special time and hour, and needing particular preparation – in short, something that should be precious and rare” and “reserved for particular feasts, for celebration at evening or in the night stillness. It ought to be withdrawn altogether from the use and wont of every day”.
“No form of devotion which does not offer or achieve this mystery for the worshipper [i.e. “the real presence of the transcendent and holy in its very nature in adoration and fellowship, so as to be laid hold of and and enjoyed in present possession”] can be perfect or can give lasting contentment to a religious mind.” – Rudolf Otto
“in solitary, silent, vague darkness, the Aweful One is near” – F. W. Robertson
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