Explanations

My teacher used to say, "People like explanations." We do. They're comforting. When the explanation is reasonably correct, it's useful.

But there will always be things we can't explain. In fact, our explanations are always provisional. This isn't a problem unless we start to confuse the explanation with the reality it's trying to explain. We have a strong tendency to do that because we like explanations so much.

~Brad Warner, in It Came From Beyond Zen!