"It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love, and goodness, that we drift into a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark sensation of meaninglessness and abandonment is all the greater."
-Pope Benedict XVI, Spe Salvi
You can't see things clearly in the dark. Very often, you don't even have the experience to call what you are in 'darkness'. It's all around you. The only way we can identify darkness for what it is, is to compare it with light.
I never know how lost I am until I've been found.
