“The nature of the most transcendent, joyous, meaningful experiences of life is to remain in them. What your mind wants to do is analyze, understand — or, more accurately — stand over the experience. This is why for many people, the word religion is a negative word, and it doesn’t have to be. Their only encounters were people talking about the experience, analyzing the experience, standing outside the experience. The point, the JOY, is IN the experience. So the real art to a spiritual vision of life is the discipline – like a muscle you learn to use – and to simply let the experiences be the experience and to hold off on the impatient rush to figure out what it is and where it fits. Once you pin down the butterfly, you are able to study all those intricate designs and patterns on the wings; but the moment you have pinned down the butterfly … is the moment that the butterfly can no longer fly. The miracle, the mystery is the flight!” — Rob Bell