...One way or another the journey through time starts for us all, and for all of us, too, that journey is at least in one sense the same journey because what it is primarily, I think, is a journey in search. Each must say for himself what it is he searches for, and there will be at least as many answers as there are searchers, but perhaps there are certain general answers that will do for us all. We search for a self to be. We search for other selves to love. We search for work to do. And since even when to one degree or another, we find these things, we find also that there is still something crucial missing which we have not found, we search for that unfound thing too, even though we do not know its name or where it is to be found or even if it is to be found at all.
-Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey, 58.
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