“and you taste / of the memory of god abandoned.”
“God does not abandon men, my son. Men abandon God.”
“You will find that your taste buds have a memory of about 3 weeks.”
“The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.”
“There is no absolute peril except for him who abandons himself; There is no complete death except for him who aquires a taste of dying.”
“...you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive...”