We need thresholds in our daily lives, so that we clearly move from one sphere of life to another. The soul needs a variety of places where it can retreat and disappear from life, and it needs places of effective separation. Parks, clubs, restaurants, beaches, trails, and chapels on the material level are of great importance, as are meditation, contemplation, daydreaming, night dreams, distraction, memory, and many things that fit in the category of rapture, on the spiritual level. Each requires a temenos that is created with imagination and protected fiercely and aggressively if necessary.
— Thomas Moore, The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life