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UNDERSTANDING

“And behold, You were within me, and I was outside; and it was there that I searched for You.”— Saint Augustine, Confessions The verb comes from the Latin intendere, which means: to direct oneself inward, to stretch toward the inside. I did not know this. I did not understand it, because I spent most of my life living on the outside, often very close to the edges of those places where the only…