Wholeness...

"We live in a world that prides itself on its modernity, yet is hungry for wholeness, hungry for meaning. At the same time it is a world that marginalizes the very impulses that might fill the void. The pilgrimage to the divine, the openness that transcends ordinary experience, the very idea of feeling at one with the Universe, these are impulses which we tolerate at the fringes, where they are held at bay by our indifference. The irony is that, after excluding the mystical tradition from our cultural mainstream and claiming to find it irrelevant to our concerns, so many of us feel empy without it." (David Maybury-Lewis, Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern Work)