Dreams and myths serve to bridge the gap between what is and what might be. There is something more going on than just escapism. We long for stasis in a dynamic world. Life is a struggle to be and become, to adjust, to stay in the moment. Some believe it is out of the anguish of this struggle that we grow into spiritual maturity.
Devotion is the gesture of contemplation, so it is more of an action than it is an emotion.
Our minds generate illusions of reality, usually a set of idealistic beliefs that make us feel good about living. That s not religion. Profundity and epiphany lie beyond the experience of the practical, daily context. The way of the heart is about the transcendence of conditional existence. If the doors of perception were cleansed, man would see everything as it is, infinite.