According to what I am told, I am the son of man and woman; This astonishes me...I thought I was more (Lautréamont).
We all want more than mere birthright. We all long for something we think of as more. But as much as we long, so true too is the fact that this longing is unsettling, disturbing, and troubling. Often we don't know how to fill the void inside, or simple, that void, that unsettling feeling, that thirst hurts too much.
Bernard Bro says, as much as we long, we also fear. This is the tragic aspect of the grandeur of the mind. Each of us succeeds perfectly, if she so wishes, in suffocating the questions that disturb her, in anesthetizing them...we have a thirst for happiness, but we are afraid of being thirsty.
It is true; much of our frantic activities in life attempt to suffocate our thirst. Jesus would have us thirst for more. It is in pondering the questions that disturb that we find treasures hidden from our first glance.
Do not be afriad of your thirst. Instead, let it lead you to more.
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