“At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than ourselves, is breaking through the hard crust of our widespread cultural materialism and pseudo-scientific underestimation of what a human being is meant to be together with an equally tragic overestimation of what we human beings are capable of in our present everyday state of being. The intensity of the present confusion about the nature and existence of God is a symptom of this yearning within the whole of our modern culture.” GivingMomentsTogetherCultureExistenceConsciousnessModernCapableEverydayConfusionTragicMaterialismPresent MomentMeant To BeYearningExistence Of God Author:Jacob Needleman
“Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” SelfMatterHappinessJoyConsciousnessGratitudeLaughterOrdinaryEverydayBusyHappyCheerPursuit Of HappinessLivelyGreat HappinessInner HappinessSelf HappinessArt Of HappinessSecret To HappinessInner Peace And HappinessBeing BusyUnconcerned Author:Iris Murdoch
“Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.” PeopleMenAbleFormReligionOrderConsciousnessModernHigherEasierRelationRemainsEverydayEveryday LifeElevationModern Man Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn