"And there lies the deadly error. Only when your whole attention and desire are fixed on something else -- whether a distant mountain, or the past, or the gods of Asgard -- does the 'thrill' arise. It is a by-product. It's very existance presupposes that you desire not it but something other and outer. If by any perverse askesis or the use of any drug it could be produced from within, it would at once be seen to be of no value. For take away the object, and what, after all, would be left? -- a while of images, a fluttering sensation in the diaphragm, a momentary abstraction. And who could want that?"
This quote was taken from C.S. Lewis', autobiographical work, Surprised by Joy. So true, and yet with our TV, magazines, and, on the more sinister side, porn & drugs, we attempt to find joy. Instead, it just runs through our fingers. By seeking only to please ourselves, we find what George MacDonald said of hell, "The one principle of hell is -- 'I am my own.'"
This quote was taken from C.S. Lewis', autobiographical work, Surprised by Joy. So true, and yet with our TV, magazines, and, on the more sinister side, porn & drugs, we attempt to find joy. Instead, it just runs through our fingers. By seeking only to please ourselves, we find what George MacDonald said of hell, "The one principle of hell is -- 'I am my own.'"
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