Well, my goal, the transcendent, That Which Is Beyond, could be called "good" or "beauty" or "honest relationship with each other" or "love" or a number of abstractions - but I have experienced the Beyond as personal, which I call "God," the source and center and unifying element of whatever it is that we are.

Erich Fromm called it "meaning" - I could buy that, too. It's not an explanation of the unknown - it's the meaning of the undefinable.

But the trouble with all of this is, that words cheapen the whole thing. Faith is something to be experienced and enjoyed (and suffered, at times) - defining it just doesn't work.

-Joe-