“The pilgrim self also needs the fearful ones to remind it that it cannot survive in its own strength alone, that it needs the company of those who have been in touch with what is highest in themselves. This self does not find archaic the ancient concept of communion with the saints. In that communion it learns that there is no abandonment. “Lo, I am with you always.””
–Elizabeth O’Connor, Our Many Selves, p. 7
