The Secular Mentality Vs. The Sacred Mentality

“The person with a secular mentality feels himself to be the center of the universe. Yet he is likely to suffer from a sense of meaninglessness and insignificance because he knows he’s but one human among eight billion others - all feeling themselves to be the center of things - scratching out an existence on the surface of a medium-sized planet circling a small star among countless stars in a galaxy lost among countless galaxies. The person with the sacred mentality, on the other hand, does not feel himself to be the center of the universe. He considers the Center to be elsewhere and other. Yet he is unlikely to feel lost or insignificant precisely because he draws her significance and meaning from his relationship, his connection, with that center, that Other.”