April 29
Companions of the Way (Morning)As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God.
AS truly as it is part of our nature to look outwards and fill our life with objective interests, as truly as it is part of our nature to look inwards, to return upon ourselves and to become conscious of an inner life of our own in which we are separated from all others—so it is part of our nature, an immanent necessity of our rational being, to look upwards, and to regard our whole life, inner and outer, as based upon and circumscribed by a Power in whom we and all things live and move and have our being. Hence the consciousness of God is as near to us, as necessary to us, as the consciousness of the world or of self; nay, in a sense it has a higher necessity than either, and we are nearer to God than to ourselves; for the consciousness of self rests upon the idea of God, as at once its first presupposition and its last end and goal. All our life is a progress through the world and through ourselves to the God from whom we come, in whom we are, to whom we tend.
EDWARD CAIRD