“But after all humans are not in the world to succeed, to be more secure, to tame the Earth, to build big commercial structures or to crash into them to find God; humans are not here to become comfortable, to purify themselves or anybody else, to be immortal or to get their way. Humans are here to become complex, simple-living beautiful things into which the Holy itself cannot resist crashing, because in  the Divine collision of God’s desire and our beauty, the world jumps back into flower with all its detours,  griefs, joys, pain, reliefs, breakthroughs, and ironies as its accepted petals.”

~ Martin Prechtel