The longing that Augustine describes is less like curiosity and more like hunger—less like an intellectual puzzle to be solved and more like a craving for sustenance (see Ps. 42:1–2).

‘Listen. You have this thing in you called a personal will. It’s what motivates you to want things in life—career advancement, affirmation, fancy cars. And it’s not bad, that’s just how people are. But sooner or later you find out it can’t be satisfied. So then your personal will gets you into spirituality, because that could be the source of some