Sublime

Some of my interlocutors told the stories of their erotic lives as tales of lost innocence:

Taylor emphasizes that the loss of loved ones is the experience that is hardest to bear in a secular age:

When left unexamined, core wounds that are formed in childhood and the embodied relational patterns attached to them will continue to control our behaviors from behind the scenes of our adult lives.

Contemplation is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is a way to inhabit ordinary life.

promise of immanence,

But beauty is a spiritual matter, and as such it is no respecter of social status. Beauty opens onto the world beyond our private concerns.

Hillman, J. (1992). The thought of the heart and the soul of the world.

Beauty opens the door to the significance of beings, and having seen and recognized this, we can no longer be unmoved or indifferent.

human becoming.