In our various alphabets we keep gesturing toward the One behind the Many. We are always speaking about the unsayable in terms of what we can touch and taste and see. That is the best we can do, as brief-lived creatures with only a few doorways of perception and a small but curious brain. Given our history, it is hard to believe we were not put here to think about this place, to ask questions, to gaze back at the source, as though to complete a circuit of intelligence. No single alphabet can express the full range of our knowledge.
— Scott Russell Sanders, Writing from the Center