One of the open secrets of life on earth is that the answer to life’s burning question has been inscribed in one’s soul all along. The soul is a kind of ancient vessel that holds the exact knowledge we seek and need to find our way in life. Each life is a pilgrimage intended to arrive at the center of the pilgrim’s soul. From that vantage point, the issue is not whether we managed to choose the right god or the only way to live righteously; such notions fail to recognize the inborn intimacy each soul already has with the divine.
Michael Meade in Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul (Revised and Expanded Edition) p. 91.
I love it!
The phrase about life’s questions was racketing about in my brain after I read this, and I couldn’t think from where, but I finally found it: A dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets. But one man is still trying to find the answers to life’s persistent questions: Guy Noir, Private Eye.