MATRIX
REFLECTIONS EXCERPTS
the
QUESTION?
Trinity:
"I know why you are here Neo. I know what you have
been doing. I know why you hardly sleep. Why you are alone
and why night after night you sleep at your computer. You’re
looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the
same thing. And when he found me he told me I wasn’t
really looking for him. I was looking for an answer. It
is the question that drives us Neo. It is the question that
brought you here. You know the question just as I did."
Neo:
"What is the Matrix?"
Trinity:
"The answer is out there Neo. It is looking for you
and it will find you if you want it to."
Matrix
OUR DEEP NEED
There
is a deep
need in all of us. A need to belong and to know who
we are and where we came from.
When
this need is not met we may find ourselves trying to fulfill
the longing with other things that are harmful to us—things
that bid for our attention and distract us from seeking
the answer to our deepest longing. It is quite easy to lose
ourselves, our dreams, and our deepest calling to the quest
for power, fame, money, affirmation, recognition, or revenge.
Yet
for some of us a question continues to lurk in the back
of our minds. It is The Question of why we are here and
"what is the truth." It is The Question, and it
comes in many forms: "Why do I exist?" "What
is the meaning of life?" "What is the purpose
of my life?"
Some
people become accustomed to their everyday life without
the answer to that question. Many are content with not answering
The Question because they are consumed with the distraction.
Others
of us are driven by The Question; restless until we find
the truth. Is it not comforting to know that The Question
is looking for us and that it will find us if we want it
to?
"… Ask and it will be given to you; seek and
you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."
-– Luke 11:9 (NIV)
