Si comprehendis, non est Deus



(If you can grasp it, it’s not God.)

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life…. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

–Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

NPR had a ripe story about the album by Van Morrision, Astral Weeks. One of the persons interviewed had an interesting observation. He used to think that good music was a matter of practice but Astral Weeks made him realize that courage was as important as practice to make art (or in my application prayer or meditation). How lovely.