“Often, as we conclude a retreat at Dayspring, someone will say: This has been powerful. I hope I can hold onto it back in the real world.” But the “real world” is not the one to which we are going. We return to the “unreal” world where the culture is distorted and trapped in pretense. The “real” world is the one we were just in, where our hearts were opened and we gave inner consent to rest in God.”
-N. Gordon Cosby, Seized by the Power of a Great Affection
’tis True, ’tis True! A quote from St. Augustine comes to mind in his ruminations with God about his former life of dissipation: “…YOU were in me but I was not in YOU”; and then his great Epiphany: “our hearts are restless until they rest in YOU”.