A Change of Direction

The communion and tenderness the adult has run away from as an adolescent become the very things he needs in order to rediscover inner unity and to give life. It is a conversion and a change of direction. God and universal truth are not in the sky and the stars, nor in theories, ideologies and ideals. They are hidden in actual people, in flesh, mud and matter. They are hidden in the poor and the weak who cry above all for recognition and communion. .

- Jean Vanier, Our Journey Home, p. 248