I find the beliefs raised here to be quite alien to me, so I have a hard time understanding what the actual point is.

For example, I don't understand what this means:

And yet it's really difficult to face living in a world without vast glory.

Or this:

We want very badly for something to be an unalloyed repository of good. It is not normally credible to conceive oneself as perfect, but we need at least something or someone to be worthy of praise. We want to look upwards, towards goodness and light; we want to be the kind of people who are capable of praise, capable of a reverent and appreciative frame of mind.

Except for the last part...I do want to be the sort of person who can be appreciative of the things and people around me. I just totally disconnect from the rest of that.