Infinite thirst for the infinite
What is the meaning of my conscience? What is the explanation for my sense of the infinite? Within myself there is something which continually makes me look beyond myself. Within myself I bear a source…
What's surprising me about reading Orthodox theology (at least through Kallistos Ware), is how transcendental some of the language is. Maybe this is because Orthodoxy, at least my experience of it, is focused on ritual and dogmatic adherence, but if you get into the practice of the monks and mystics, it very much insists on direct experience. I did not expect St. Nicolas Cabasilas (a Byzantine monk from 1319) to write about the "infinite thirst for the infinite." Of course though, the answers to many of these open questions are given theological answers, but religious questioning is what's missing in a secular society.