am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving. I am more touched, still, that you are trying to understand-through rational thought-that which cannot be understood at all. There is no exact principle to be found here. The divine, as Boehme said, is unground-unfathomable, something outside the world as we experience it. But this is a difference of our minds, dearest one. I wish to arrive at revelation on wings, while you advance steadily on foot, magnifying glass in hand. I am a smattering wanderer, seeking God within the outer contours, searching for a new way of knowing. You stand upon the ground, and consider the evidence inch by inch. Your way is more rational and more methodical, but I cannot change my way." "I do have a dreadful love for understanding," Alma admitted. "Indeed you do love it, though it is not dreadful,
( Elizabeth Gilbert )
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