You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.
When you're on this major English estate, breathing in the English air, and it's untouched, you can feel its presence. It's a whole different feel. It really felt like we were there living it. It didn't feel modern, ever.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Passion without focus can lead you astray.
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.
Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.