Posted by: jakinnan | November 24, 2012

A Dangerous Form of Spiritual Alienation

“In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a ‘dangerous form of spiritual alienation’ — a devaluing of the world and its creator.”

-Richard Louv

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  1. Fantastica

    By: lesuperkikke on November 24, 2012
    at 12:39 PM

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