“To journey for the sake of saving our own lives just a little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world’s sake – even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death – that little by little we start to come alive. It was not a conclusion that I came to in time. It was not a conclusion that I came to in time. It was a conclusion from beyond time that came to me. God knows I have never been any good at following the road it appointed me to, but at least, by grace, I glimpsed the road and saw that it is the only one worth traveling.”

– Frederick Buechner, Sacred Journey