And then heed his advice. We need them, but most especially we need to recognize the ones we already have. Acceptance of the ordinary. There is a certain compulsion afoot to go seeking for extraordinary signs and experiences. Shake off the scepticism.
Idealism is no longer kosher.
No wonder, in an era that has reduced love to sex and happiness to self-indulgence. To discover your vocation and accept it you must dream and hope at least as much as the young man and woman who are getting married. You have to dream even more. To discern a vocation you have to loosen the ties that bind us to the merely pragmatic, the distrust that our society breeds in us. You have to believe enthusiastically that Christ is more necessary to your fellowmen than the new boat, the second house, the third car or the next promotion.