"You mustn't take these and similar meditations too literally; they are only attempts to capture something from the flow of my feelings and inner thought processes; sometimes I map it out with these formulations, at other times I may use completely different ones. I'm no philosopher and it is not my ambition to create a conceptually fixed system; anyone who tries to understand it that way will soon discover that I am perpetually contradicting myself, that I leave many things unexplained or explain them differently each time, etc."
Vaclav Havel
Letters to Olga
Havel is doing the same thing that believers have had to do since the beginning, using the language and concepts at hand to try to express our noetic experiences. However unsatisfactory this process is, I'm glad Havel did not settle for the other alternative, staying silent. I take strength from the words of others who have trod this path before me.
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