“The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.”

As translated at Gallery of Russian Thinkers … selected by Dmitry Olshansky (2005)&lt;!-- by Richard Schain --&gt; http://www.isfp.co.uk/russian_thinkers/nikolay_berdyaev.html <br class="br">Dream and Reality (1949) <br class="br">Context: There is no objective reality. But there is only an illusion of consciousness, there is only an objectivication of reality, which was created by the spirit. The origin of life is creativity, freedom; and the personality, subject, and spirit are the representatives of that origin, but not the nature, not the object.

The Desiring Machine
Anti-Oedipus Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1977)

"The Holy Dimension", p. 330
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Context: Faith is sensitiveness to what transcends nature, knowledge and will, awareness of the ultimate, alertness to the holy dimension of all reality. Faith is a force in man, lying deeper than the stratum of reason and its nature cannot be defined in abstract, static terms. To have faith is not to infer the beyond from the wretched here, but to perceive the wonder that is here and to be stirred by the desire to integrate the self into the holy order of living. It is not a deduction but an intuition, not a form of knowledge, of being convinced without proof, but the attitude of mind toward ideas whose scope is wider than its own capacity to grasp.
Such alertness grows from the sense for the meaningful, for the marvel of matter, for the core of thoughts. It is begotten in passionate love for the significance of all reality, in devotion to the ultimate meaning which is only God. By our very existence we are in dire need of meaning, and anything that calls for meaning is always an allusion to Him. We live by the certainty that we are not dust in the wind, that our life is related to the ultimate, the meaning of all meanings. And the system of meanings that permeates the universe is like an endless flight of stairs. Even when the upper stairs are beyond our sight, we constantly rise toward the distant goal.

[2019, Esoterism as Principle and as Way, World Wisdom, 234, 978-1-93659765-9]
Spiritual life, Faith

The Miracle of Mindfulness (1999)

Source: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 59-61

Source: Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (1984), p. 293.