Is it perhaps because we live in a philosophical age that cannot bear broaching metaphysical or ontological issues and questions? Is it perhaps because we live in an age that cannot bear that there may be more than human being and the “world” that we construct? Is it perhaps because we live in an age that cannot bear the thought that there may be an ultimate underlying unifying unity to all things that beckons us to listen in awed silence and that is the Source of joy for us beyond every heartache? These are important questions for us in the present age, and I suggest that we need to be more attentive to them.

— Richard Capobianco