"Whereas the man of today can easily think about and understand all the "truths" dished out to him by the State, his understanding of religion is made considerably more difficult owing to the lack of explanations.. If, despite this, he has still not discarded all his religious convictions, this is because the religious impulse rests on an instictive basis and is therefore a specifically human function... When any natural human function gets lost, i.e., is denied conscious and intentional expression a general disturbance results. Hence, it is quite natural that with the triumph of the Goddess of Reason a general neuroticizing of modern man should set in, a dissociation of personality.... "

- C. G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self, p. 65

"The ideas we create, the technological artifacts we produce compete with each other, and with us, for scarce material resources and for attention - which is the scarcest resource of the mind."

-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, The Evolving Self, p. xvii

"The world of the future will consist of the ideas and objects to which we choose to pay attention in the present. Have you thought much about the kind of world you are helping to create now?"

-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, The Evolving Self, p. 143

"But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. The man who independently plucked the fruits when he was hungry is become a farmer: and he who stood under a tree for shelter, a housekeeper. We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. We have adopted Christianity merely as an improved method of agri-culture. We have built for this world a family mansion, and for the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten."

-Henry David Thoreau, Walden