what we hunger for perhaps more than anything else

"By and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both very
telling and very important to tell. They are telling in the sense that they
tell what is perhaps the central paradox of our condition - that what we
hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full
humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything
else."
Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets