Every historic religion has faced the problem of how to knead the vision of the sacred into the dough of everyday life. . . . Ritual invests ordinary acts and objects with symbolic meaning. . . . To play with ritual and to invent disciplines of awareness is to recognize that we have dual citizenship. We live simultaneously in two dimensions, the profane and the sacred, time and eternity. We remain most animated, most inspired, most fully alive, when we learn how to cross back and forth between the here and now and the Beyond.
— Sam Keen, Hymns to an Unknown God