“Words are inadequate”: William McNeill, Keeping Together in Time (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), quoted in Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis (New York: Basic, 2005), 237.
“A rail-thin man”: Zadie Smith, “Joy,” The New York Review of Books, January 10, 2013, nybooks/articles/2013/01/10/joy.
“If I had written the greatest book”: Nancy L. Roberts, Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker (Albany: SUNY Press, 1985), 26.
“Joy is the meeting place”: David Whyte, Consolations (Langley, WA: Many Rivers Press, 2015), 127.
“For a long moment I’m still in”: Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), 44.
“Whenever I plunge into wilderness”: Belden C. Lane, Backpacking with the Saints (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 8.
“As I lay there”: Jules Evans, “Dissolving the Ego,” Aeon, June 26, 2017, aeon/essays/religion-has-no-monopoly-on-transcendent-experience.
“Joy is not merely external”: Miroslav Volf, “The Crown of the Good Life: A Hypothesis,” in Joy and Human Flourishing, eds. Miroslav Volf and Justin E. Crisp (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015), 135.
ONE Moral Ecologies
“Man is a creature”: Iris Murdoch, “Metaphysics and Ethics,” in Existentialists and Mystics (New York: Penguin Press, 1998), 75.
TWO The Instagram Life
“I am very sure that someday”: Jack O. Balswick, Pamela Ebstyne King, and Kevin S. Reimer, The Reciprocating Self (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005), 182.
“identity capital”: Meg Jay, The Defining Decade (New York: Twelve, 2012), 10.
THREE The Insecure Overachiever
“is a place you can lose”: David Whyte, The Three Marriages (New York: Riverhead, 2009), 25.
FOUR The Valley
“I tried to achieve intellectual perfection”: Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, in Pilgrim Souls, ed. Amy Mandelker and Elizabeth Powers (New York: Touchstone, 1999), 51.
“So there I was, a couple of years after college”: William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep (New York: Free Press, 2014), 110.
“Something that doesn’t have”: David Foster Wallace, quoted in Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly, All Things Shining (New York: Free Press, 2011), 24.
“Conversation after conversation”: Veronica Rae Saron, “Your Unshakable Stuck-ness as a 20-something Millennial,” Medium, December 20, 2016, medium/@vronsaron/your-unshakable-stuck-ness-as-a-20-something-millennial-d7580383e1b0.
Seventy-six percent: Rosalyn F. T. Murphy, “The Fellowship of The King,” Comment, June 12, 2018, cardus.ca/comment/article/the-fellowship-of-the-king.
“the state of mind that can find a social order”: Robert Nisbet, The Quest for Community (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1990), xxiii.
only 20 percent of young adults: William Damon, The Path to Purpose (New York: Free Press, 2008), 60.
church attendance has declined: Charles Heckscher, Trust in a Complex World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 50.
FIVE The Wilderness
“You are living through an unusual time”: Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love (New York: Image Books, 1999), 16.
“What happens when a ‘gifted child’ ”: Lane, Backpacking with the Saints, 56.
“Your pain is deep”: Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love, 88.
“If I were called upon”: Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace (New York: HarperOne, 2009), 87.
“As the darkness began to descend”: Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999), 19.
“Trying to live”: Ibid., 5.
“When I venture into wilderness”: Lane, Backpacking with the Saints, 76.
“Your ego prefers certainty”: James Hollis, What Matters Most (New York: Avery, 2009), 95.
SIX Heart and Soul
book about a guy who bought a house: Ronald Rolheiser, The Holy Longing (New York: Image Books, 2009), 17.
“To be human is to”: James K. A. Smith, You Are What You Love (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2016), 8.
Because you have this essence inside of you: Gerald K. Harrison, “A Defence of the Soul,” The Montreal Review, June 2016, themontrealreview/2009/A-defence-of-the-soul.php.
“My fit of illness”: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852), 73.
SEVEN The Committed Life
“A man who would say”: Dietrich von Hildebrand and Alice von Hildebrand, The Art of Living (Steubenville, OH: Hildebrand Project, 2017), 23.
“Spirituality is an emotion”: Rabbi David Wolpe, “The Limitations of being ‘Spiritual but Not Religious,’ ” Time, March 21, 2013, ideas.time/2013/03/21/viewpoint-the-problem-with-being-spiritual-but-not-religious.
“existential urgency”: Paul Froese, On Purpose (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), 54.
EIGHT The Second Mountain
“There is a gravitas”: Richard Rohr, Falling Upward (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011), 117.
“Instead, we saw”: Anne Colby and William Damon, Some Do Care (New York: Free, 1994), 70.
“chaotic, extravert”: Patrick Woodhouse, Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed (New York: Continuum, 2009), 7.
“I think my parents”: Ibid., 13.
“My capable brain”: Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941–1943 (New York: Henry Holt, 1996), 49.
“What I really want is a man”: Ibid., 17.
“All my inner tensions”: Ibid., 7.
“You are my beloved”: Woodhouse, Etty Hillesum, 21.
“In other words, I wanted to subject nature,”: Ibid., 33.
“Oh God, take me into Your great hands”: Hillesum, Diaries, 33.
“No longer: I want this or that,”: Woodhouse, Etty Hillesum, 46.