This austerity isn't meant to capture the rhythms of ordinary existence, but rather to present a heightened, filtered, clarified picture of what that existence might mean. (nytimes.com)
As much as we want to be like Peter, it's often incredibly tempting in the midst of our mundane and rather ordinary existence to be like Paul. (relevantmagazine.com)
Even before the axial period, archaic or primal religions already had an at least embryonic sense of a sacral dimension that could interrupt life and bestow on it a wider significance than that given in ordinary existence. (religion-online.org)