Keep being the people we will need when this time of moral emptiness passes–and it will, I assure you.

That’s important. This is a moment when all the wheels appear to be coming off of the world as we have known it. More important than ever that we resist being sucked into its false urgency and seeming inevitability. If something is true, it will abide and persevere through all pretensions of power and domination. Truth doesn’t cease to be true by force of personality or the clamor of a mob. So hold to truth. Time will vindicate your faithfulness to it and steady your resolve to stand on it, come what may. You will be needed when the contradictions and delusions have abandoned us all.

There is a profound shallowness among us in this moment, a weariness of soul and spirit. The nihilists need not cope with it. They have the oblivion of their slogans and self-education, which is as life changing as a dog chasing its tail. No, only depth, deep rootedness, can survive it.