Sunday, September 25, 2011

The God-Shaped Hole in the Human Soul

The idea of a "God-shaped hole" in the human heart is a famous modern metaphor for the yearning in the human soul which drives us on our spiritual quest. This image of a terrifying bottomless abyss opening up inside us -- a void of nothingness which only an infinite God could fill -- is derived from ideas found in Pascal and St. Augustine, where we see the answer to this problem linked to the mysterious depths of subconscious memory and the fundamental quest for truth. TO CONTINUE CLICK HERE . . . http://hindsfoot.org/godsha.html 

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