People are truth-seeking missiles, but not many of us were encouraged to challenge our convictions and identities, except by writers and certain teachers, so we extracted meaning by selecting certain variables that agreed with our parents’ worldview. Yet the more variables we decide to include, the greater breadth of writing, the bigger bandwidth of truth, the more our understanding aligns with what truth is; paradoxically, the more expansively we can see, the more simple truth seems.

Anne Lamott, from Almost Everything — Notes on Hope P. 100