To live, to be able to exist, the mind must connect itself with some kind of order. It must apprehend reality as an independent whole… it must bind itself in a stable fashion to certain features of what we call reality.

The mind lives, and we live, in a relationship of faith with reality itself.

We live and exist in this relationship of confidence, which is always by its nature “uncertain” and “insecure.”

Pall Skulason. “Reflections at the Edge of Askja.”