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“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history — money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery — the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” – C.S. Lewis
I’ve started playing an app on my phone called Cryptograms, where I guess by deduction what a quote is. They’ve had some good ones in there. Today’s inspired me to share it, and to add a new feature “Quote of the Day” to the blog. Not sure if it will be regularly scheduled or just when I come across a good one.
Tao Talk 
Very true. Everything else leads you on an endless quest for meaning and satisfaction, making you want more and more.
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Glad you agree and thanks for sharing your thoughts on it.
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Wonderful quote Lisa and sad but so true. I see it happening every day with executives.
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It is unfortunate and racing headlong into a dead end that may end up ending us all 😦
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Yea the world is too fast and too greedy now.
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I love the quote. Additionally, it is certainly reminiscent of concepts in The Lord of the Rings.
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Oops, sorry… messed that up. Still, maybe not too mixed up. [C.S. Lewis had been an atheist before Tolkien especially et al were his peers and before he wrote what I enjoyed as a youngster, The Chronicles of Narnia.] I did mean to refer to John Ronald Reuel T’s famous work, yet wasn’t being very verbal.
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Oh ok, I think I get what you’re saying. Do you think Tolkien helped Lewis change his perspective with his series?
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I think Lewis probably wouldn’t have written his own famous series, the set I read. Nor would he have thought quite the same way generally. However, Lewis was already very creative. I’ve found his ideas on Boxen (a place he made up in childhood) a bit intriguing. Tolkien didn’t especially like Lewis’ stories (with allegories like in The Chronicles), though. Anyway, I wanted to find out who started their successful works first (and maybe did influence the other imaginatively) so did some further looking around; saved this and a few other things for future reference a few days ago…
https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/commentary/how-c-s-lewis-accepted-christianity
On September 19, 1931, in what might rank as one of the most important conversations in literary history, Lewis took his friend and colleague J. R. R. Tolkien on a walk along the River Cherwell near Magdalen College. A professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, Tolkien had been studying ancient and medieval mythologies for decades; he had begun writing his own epic mythology about Middle-earth while he was a soldier in France during World War I. As Lewis recounted the conversation in his autobiography, Surprised by Joy, Tolkien insisted that myths were not falsehoods but rather intimations of a concrete, spiritual reality.
Note: I also learned that Magdalen, above, is pronounced as maudlin.
I liked this answer better than the “best answer” at the [trademarked] Answers app [where I could have mistakenly believed the real answer I was looking for was that The Lion… Wardrobe was first]. I should admit I may have gotten this from a different very specific search.
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Marleen, thank you for researching and sharing your research on it. Both of these guys were sharp cookies that gleaned from their pasts and paved the way to a more enlightened future. I absolutely agree with what Tolkien insisted. I’m reading a really good book about dreams, “The Oracle of Night,” by a scholar-scientist named Ribeiro, and love how he goes way way way back and steps it forward in how dreams have influenced so much. I’m only on page 60 right now but the groundwork he lays is meticulous.
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🙂.
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That’s interesting, Marleen, hadn’t looked at it in that light.
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good one Li! I love collecting quotes!
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Thanks, Carol Anne. Are you going to add this one to your collection?
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I go to an Inklings meeting on Zoom every Friday, and once a month on Zoom with the New York C.S. Lewis Society. These kinds of posts are interesting for me~
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I don’t know what Inklings is? Neat that you belong to a C.S. Lewis Society group. Happy you found the post interesting because of Lewis.
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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Inklings
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Fascinating. I do believe that having a writing group where you could count on your friends to be brutally (and honestly) honest would definitely hone your work.
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We don’t write there. We learn about those writers but I assume it helps my writing
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p.s. So you are in a writing group like this? Very cool.
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I learn a lot of really interesting things. I took a lot of literature classes in school but there is much more I never learned there
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p.s. Please feel free to share a favorite Lewis quote of yours.
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I’ll try to find a really interesting one
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It’s a pretty profound quote, Lisa. And it rings true. Unfortunately, human beings can be very short-sighted and very cruel when it comes to the pursuit of happiness!
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I think lack of spirituality leaves a vacuum that can never be filled 😦
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It’s a good quote Li. Thanks for sharing
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You’re welcome, Sadje.
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❤️❤️❤️
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Does God make people happy? Not in my experience…(K)
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It’s all in the definitions. A boxed god (organized religion) can do just the opposite. And happy means something different to each individual.
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I just discussed that with a friend. We decided that happy has become a meaningless word, settling on contentment as a better alternative.
And, well, God is another loaded word.
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I think contentment is better, too. And I’d prefer not to look for happiness rather than be satisfied with Truth.
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Truth is another one of those twisty biscuit words. Truth is relative. There is no view without a viewer.
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🙂I was mostly just using instead of the word God.
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🙂
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A boxed …organized religion… can do just the opposite.
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