As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.
As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.
Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls.
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.
Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.
