“There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.”

Source: Society of the Spectacle (1967), Ch. 7, sct. 168.

Source: Dark Age Ahead (2004), Chapter Four, Science Abandoned, p. 64-65

"The pool", p. 140
Short Stories, Collected short stories 1

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

11 December 2006
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2006

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

CNN interview (2004)

Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 88 - 89 -->
Context: Awe is more than an emotion; it is a way of understanding, insight into a meaning greater than ourselves. The beginning of awe is wonder, and the beginning of wisdom is awe.
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.

&quot;Conferenza con Patch Adams a Reggio Emilia&quot; arcoiris tv (27 March 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0goppIcodJo