"That fierce imprisonment in the self is..." - Quote by C S Lewis
That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.
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“Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.”
“The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us”
“There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?”
More on Self
“As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.”
“For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.”
“The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.”
More on Selfishness
“Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.”
“A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.”
“It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!”