A Quote

As nearly as I can tell, our core is what Hebrew and Christian spiritualities have called heart...

The problem is that this heart is so spacious...Since we can neither make an adequate cellular representation of it nor incorporate it into our preexisting systems, we cannot adapt to it. Like God, and perhaps in the image of God, our deepest sense of self will never be "normal." Because our brains are used to dealing with normalities that have boundaries and qualities, the spaciousness, its beckoning security and confidence notwithstanding, is terrifying.

So we are likely to pull away, perhaps even with a vengeance, and thrust our attention back into the world of form and substance where we can define ourselves. Here, though our addictions bind us and frustrate us, we at least think we know who we are. We are in the world of our normality, the conditioned world to which the cells of our brain have adapted. But we have been touched by this other, deeper sense, and it will touch us again. It has awakened and appetized our spiritual hunger, and part of us will forever want to go back for more. We can occupy ourselves with other things, but there will always be times of rest, moments of pause, and there it will be, beckoning.

--Gerald May