The person with a secular mentality feels himself to be the centre of the universe. Yet he is likely to suffer fro m a sense of meaninglessness and insignificance because he knows he's but one human among five billion others. The person with the sacred mentality, on the other hand, does not feel herself to be the centre of the universe. Yet she is unlikely to feel lost or insignificant precisely because she draws her significance and meaning from her relationship with that centre, that Other.
