"Primitive understandings of the world in terms of gods and other supernatural forces are largely what shaped and informed both what we might call the externalities and internalities of religions.
[...]
"But the internalities of religion are comprised also of another dimension, its innermost soul, so to speak, and that is the human urge for heightened mental and emotional states. It is that urge that is perhaps most recognized in the faith of many contemporary individuals, those who feel uncomfortable with dogma, ill at ease with the unbending fealty to organized religion that characterizes traditional fundamentalism but are drawn instead to the soaring religious spirit and the loftiness of its ideals. It's this spirit that informs the quiet and still reflections on our place in the world, our connection to the idea of the divine, and our relationship to our fellow humans."
-- Hasidic Rebel, 2009-05-19
[Happy Chanukah to everyone lighting a candle tonight!]
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