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“We seem to have lost our contact with the primordial: the idea of - call it divi…” — John Tavener
We seem to have lost our contact with the primordial: the idea of - call it divine revelation as opposed to something that's learned by the human intellect - something that, if you lay yourself completely open, and you just open your heart completely, something will actually come into it.
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