Losing Sight of our Spiritual Longing in the Modern World

In our modern materialistic world, it is easy to lose sight of that sense of longing. In her wonderful collection of essays Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard speaks about that growing void: 

Now we are no longer primitive. Now the whole world seems not holy…. We as a people have moved from pantheism to pan-atheism…. It is difficult to undo our own damage and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard…