Experience and the Absolute Quotes

“he who prays leaves many things behind, starting with the profanity of the world and the numerous secrets of the earth, as well as the dialectics that constitute history; he also takes leave of every relation with the real in which appropriation is an essential moment. Strictly speaking, those who liturgically face the Absolute neither have anything nor can take possession of anything. Nothing they could have in their possession contributes to the expression of their identity, and they are offered nothing they could take possession of.”
― Jean-Yves Lacoste, Experience and the Absolute: Disputed Questions on the Humanity of Man