Voegelin sensed that this unwillingness to submit to the structure of reality, and to bear the evils of the world, was a kind of spiritual disease, one that arose again in the Middle Ages and spread into modern times. (firstthings.com)
But there is a powerful shared preoccupation with, to put it as nakedly as possible, «I.» In a period whose presiding spiritual disease is narcissism, the artists we most admire play, seriously, with what we can know about who we think we are. (vanityfair.com)
They have disguised from themselves their spiritual disease. (religion-online.org)