Man stands in strict connection with a higher fact never yet manifested. There is power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communications… This open channel to the highest life is the first and last reality, so subtle, so quiet, yet so tenacious, that although I have never expressed the truth, and although I have never heard the expression of it from any other, I know that the whole truth is here for me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)