Every now and then, you stumble upon an answer so satisfying it feels almost thirst-quenching, as if a missing piece just clicked into place. I had one of those moments while revisiting the Lectures on Faith with the copy I…

“Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes – I mean the universe – but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written.…

“Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. Death, for instance, is not terrible,…But the terror consists in our notion of death that it is terrible. When therefore we are hindered,…