This World is Not Enough

A quote from the great Huston Smith...my confession is that I stole it from John and Angie's blog because I loved it that much!

"There is within us - even in the blithest, most lighthearted among us - a fundamental dis-ease. This desire lies in the marrow of our bones and deep in the regions of our soul. All great literature, poetry, art, philosophy, psychology and religion tries to name and analyze this longing. We are seldom in direct touch with it, and indeed the modern world seems set on preventing us from getting in touch with it by covering it with entertainments, obsessions and distractions of every sort. But the longing is there, built into us like a jack-in-the-box that presses for release. Whether we realize it or not, simply to be human is to long for release from mundane existence with its confining walls o finitude and mortality. The Good news. . .is that longing can be fulfilled!