A Responsibility To Awe

Still waiting For Godot

Peg Belcastro

Now, we have no symbolic life, and we are all badly in need of the symbolic life. Only the symbolic life can express the need of the soul — the daily need of the soul, mind you! And because people have no such thing, they can never step out of this mill — this awful, grinding, banal life in which they are “nothing but.” In the ritual they are near the Godhead; they are even divine. Think of the…