In all of his winsome wisdom, Cistercian monk Father Thomas Keating writes: This is the human condition—to be without the true source of happiness which is the experience of the presence of God, and to have lost the key to happiness which is the contemplative dimension of life, the path to the increasing assimilation and enjoyment of God’s presence. What we experience is our desperate search for happiness where it cannot be found . . . [the key] was not lost outside ourselves. It was lost inside ourselves. This is where we need to look for it.7
