To me, that's what it means to be spiritual -- what makes your spine tingle. It's what gives you a sense of awe and wonder and transcendence. It doesn't matter to me if you call it God or the cosmos. We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves.
--Michael Shermer
On Wings of Speech: To Infinity and Beyond
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Language -- like consciousness, experience, and being -- is difficult to
wrap our minds around, since it presupposes any discussion of it. Like the
eye t...
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