Many people live half lives, turning the rheostat down to a very dim version of who and what they really are.*
Jean Houston

And then the knowledge comes to me that I have space within me for a second, timeless, larger life.**
Rainer Maria Rilke

It doesn’t feel like a half life,
Just life,
Until we notice,
Out of the corner of our eye,
A burning bush,
And, wandering over,
We find our holy ground.

Without direct, positive, informational knowledge, it is impossible to live at all. Without apophatic knowledge, it is impossible to be human.^

*Jean Houston’s A Mythic Life;
**David Brook’s The Second Mountain;
^James Carse’s Breakfast at the Victory.