on seeking

"I think God is always there, and He's always perfectly there. The issue then becomes, "Why can't we receive what is already there? Why can't we look at our mother and really truly understand how much our mother loves us even if she's unable to show it?" . . . Why do we need indications of love? Why do we need lesser symbols of love to reassure us of what we already know is there? That's what the core of the spiritual journey is. It's knowing—yet without the proof you need for your heart, you need to just wander around and figure it out . . . . If one could agree with the construct that we're here per God's grace to have an experience and learn something to come into the sublime world we live on, then there's something beautiful about the idea there's a trust from God to let us wander, stumble, fall, and pick ourselves back up."

 ~ Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins

    

The rest of the interview, with Stephen Christian of Anberlin, is deep and excellent and well worth a read.