"It now seemed to me that all..." - Quote by C S Lewis
It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
More by C S Lewis
“Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.”
“There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.”
“We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.”
More on Reality
“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
“The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.”
“Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.”
More on Awakening
“Every midwife knowsthat not until a mother’s wombsoftens from the pain of laborwill a way unfoldand the infant find that opening to be born.Oh friend!There is treasure in your heart,it is heavy with child.Listen.All the awakened ones,like trusted midwives are saying,'welcome this pain.It opens the dark passage of Grace.”
“Age is nothing; waking up is everything.”
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.”