Given the rich fruits of a spiritualized life view, it seems better to take the risk that spirituality refers to something real and true, than to embrace the opposite position — and find out in due course that one has unnecessarily told oneself a nihilistic and depressing story, thereby denying oneself a potent source of life-enhancing energy.

—John Borstlap, The Classical Revolution: Thoughts on New Music in the 21^st Century