The speech of the Grail, likewise, darts and flashes like a trout, now leaping above the surface to partake of celestial airs, now diving into murky depths, stirring up the mud, now swimming swiftly, now poised, silent, stationary, before the next movement. Such speech can be tricky as well as true, ambiguous as often as clear.

Questions free our minds to fly.

“Since man is a Logos-being, he can radiate the light of the Word. But the Word requires at least two people. Only in this way does the human word, even the unspoken word, encounter the human understanding and shine back. That is the Logos-being's presence on earth.... The relation of the Logos-being to man is one of reciprocal indwelling — that is

By remaining attached to habits or codes from the past which need to be released or at least re-examined, the initiate-speaker will likewise make mistakes. But this is not to be mourned, because the bitter harvest of mistakes activates the whole journey — if one has cultivated a healthy sense of shame.

My heart, however, yearns upward to the heights. I do not know why it is so full of life that the left side of my breast swells to bursting. O where is my desire driving me? That I shall find out if I can!1 The yearning for the heights confessed by Gahmuret is not necessarily experienced as a spiritual yearning; indeed it is not for Gahmuret.

Christ promises that, when two or more are gathered in His name, He will be present. Communion in dialogue both requires and creates the willingness to relate to self and other as “thou.” “Thou” is then felt to be inside and outside simultaneously “Thou” is the “presence” or the “love” that manifests in communication which is communion.14

The Grail journey supports self-definition. Another word we might use now for this virtue is “integrity.” When a person can say “Here I stand” and mean it, he or she exhibits a forthrightness strong enough that “never against hardness was it broken,” as Wolfram says.

People who achieve lasting worldly success rarely choose to undertake the inner quest, the very first stage of which involves being stripped down, made to appear a “poor fool.” This is perhaps why Christ says it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven.

A definitive yearning burns within all initiate-speakers, including those who feel authentically called to a profession where speaking is central. This yearning is to “communicate” — in the sense of “commune with.”