Idolotry Quotes

“Anyone who finds it difficult to form any conception of participation, that is, of self and no-self identified in the same moment of experience, should reflect on that while peculiar realm of semi-subjectivity which still leads a precarious existence under the name of 'instinct' - or on those 'irresistible' impulses, on which psychiatrists are inclined to dwell. Many of us know what panic feels like, and ordinary men are proud of their sexual vigour or ashamed of the lack of it, although the act is readily acknowledged in retrospect to be at least as much something that is done to, or with, them by an invisible force of nature, as something they themselves veritably do.”
― Owen Barfield, Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry