Luke 11:19

My children -- what is it you fear that you run so far and so fast, that you bury yourself in the drama of others and the distractions of a post-modern age fraught with both trauma and beauty (which are, to those that know, one in the same thing)?

How can you know truth if you do not live it, see it, smell it, taste it, and touch it? How can you know what makes the world rich? How can you find truth if you spend all of your time and energy escaping from the very experiences that will lead you to it?

Truth can not be found in singularity, only in silent union.

The answers you seek (and this seeking is, my friends, the reason for your existence, and the reason for your tribulations) are not found in any place "out there", but they are found somewhere that I suspect is the most foreign and exotic location of all to you, deep down in the depths of your self.

If you do not know your essence, you know nothing. You most certainly do not know God.

And I say unto you, ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Run and we shall perish.

~ J. David Zacko-Smith, Contextual Musings, 2006