If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
God left so many fingerprints at the scene of creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.