not all those who wander are lost....

“It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.”

“Don’t feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren’t packed with wise and moral actions. But get back up when you fail, celebrate behaving like a human — however imperfectly — and fully embrace the pursuit that you’ve embarked on.”

“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to figure it’s going to be a long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time.”

Every idea we have of God fails God. Indeed, each idea produces a false familiarity with the divine, a humble haughtiness that lurks behind piety.