Richard J. Severson

Rituals that heal the soul come with an urgency that demands eternal relevance.  It is a proclivity of the spirit that leads, inevitably, to dogmatic certitudes.  And yet, there is no such thing as eternity/permanence in the life of the mind, which recapitulates life’s impermanence.  Life without the prospect of striving for more of it makes no sense at all.  Eternity is but the far horizon of existence, not its natural abode.