No holiness—vastness! | Vividness

When there’s enough sense of space and of no struggle, we can afford to relax. We begin to discover what is known as sacred world, in which any artistic endeavor is regarded as sacred.

any object invested with religious sanctity can, over time, become a substitute for the real thing.

We who look at religion from the outside think of transcendence as something that occurs at special moments, in concentrated bursts of illumination, but people raised in homes where religious ritual occurs over breakfast and at dinner and in school and throughout weekends know that revelation commingles promiscuously with routine. If ritual is art,

Becoming holy means moving from a routine, homogenized existence to a life of distinctive, value-laden experience. This