symbolic life, n.All

The Symbolic life (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what modern man badly needs and lacks: only it can express the daily need of the soul and lift him out of the grinding, banal "nothing but."

The Symbolic life (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be an illegitimate refuge: monasteries are full of people fleeing life's obligations into the symbolism of their past, yet oddly they do not grow too neurotic.