“People say that we’re searching for the meaning of life. I don’t think that’s it at all. I think what we’re seeking is a spirit of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth, and quoted by Aron Ralston in his book Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Atria Books, a trademark of Simon Schuster, Inc., 2004, p. 173.
Doubts: A man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood… Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.
George Macdonald (1824-1905), “The Voice of Job,” Unspoken Sermons, Second Series [1885]
Meditation:
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
— 1 Thessalonians 5;21 (KJV)