"Most people, when they have discovered their own unreality, and suspected their miserable delusions, continue in them all the same; and feel like one who undergoes a shipwreck in a dream, and sees the firm land close by, yet can put forth neither hand nor foot to reach it. Strange that, of all possible tasks, simply to be what we are, should prove, not the easiest, but infinitely the hardest! It is the saddest evidence, if not of a  "fallen," yet of an abused and sin-beclouded nature, that to revert to our primitive faith, to come to ingenuous (naive, innocent, simple, childlike) terms with our genuine love, and live out of the hearty kernel of our being, is at once the nearest and the rarest of attainments. Needing only quiet surrender and brining only heavenly peace, it is evaded by incessant efforts and postponed for a corroding misery.

But wherever this pure grace of simplicity exists, it has for men a secret and irresistible charm. They recognize in it the traces of God's immediate presence, -- the conditions of his inspiration, -- the light from him which they too have felt and lost."  James Martineau.