Having been raised in a rather fully happy-earthly-life way, I came — also via some dramatic events in early manhood ( though I was hardly a man) while on the road — to a kind of inner, dedicated, lost-seeking-found monkdom.
Deepening a deepened knowledge of History amidst a people living, thinking and being in its massive unconscious shared ahistoria. Where and how shall I find a serious conversation?
Stephen Lapeyrouse . . . Notes Dropped Along the Way 