existential needle of our hearts. You are what you love because you live toward what you want. The human heart is a compass, orienting us to some vision of “the kingdom,” our telos. Augustine gives us another metaphor to understand this dynamic: love is like gravity. Augustine wrote centuries before Newton’s insight, so the language he uses is slightly different. He puts it this way: A body by its weight tends to move towards its proper place. The weight’s movement is not necessarily downwards,