"There are people who try to raise their souls like a man continually taking standing jumps in the hopes that , if he jumps higher every day, a time may come when he will no longer fall back but will go right up the sky. Thus occupied he cannot look at the sky. He cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not our power to travel in a vertical direction. If, however, we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up. He raises us easily.

-Simone Weil