Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

How boredom helps us know God, and ourselves…

St. Augustine famously said, “Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee,” but what exactly is the “restlessness” from which we’re being rescued? I think Augustine was thinking of people like himself, who moved from philosophy to philosophy and their associated ways of living, never finding any of them satisfying. But we can feel restless, we can be restless, in all sorts of ways.