Desert dwellers, hark!

Show me one who loves, he knows what I mean. Show me one who is full of longing, one who is hungry, one who is a pilgrim and suffering from thirst in the desert of this world, eager for the fountain in the homeland of eternity; show me someone like that, and he knows what I mean. But if I speak to one without feeling, he does not understand what I am saying. –Saint Augustine, a treatise on John