I’d been reading the work of Thomas Merton, a world-traveling agnostic who left everything to become a monk. One of his lines I’d highlighted came to mind now: “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another. We do not discover the secret of our lives merely by study and calculation in our own isolated meditations. The meaning of our life is a secret that has to be revealed to us in love.”
