Friday, January 06, 2006

feeling enchanted we are

"The soul has an absolute, unforgiving need for excursions into enchantment. It requires them like the body needs food and the mind needs thought. Yet our culture often takes pride in disproving and exploding the sources of enchantment, explaining away one mystery after another and overturning precious shrines, dissolving the family farm that has housed spirits of civility for eons, or desecrating for material profit a mountain or stream sacred to native residents. We have yet to learn that we can't survive without enchantment and that the loss is killing us."

Thomas Moore
The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life

(can you think of any other sources of enchantment? we can)

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home