Monday, July 18, 2022

surrender is the first step

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[Since nature’s] beauties were such that even a fool
 could not force them into competition,
 this cured me once and for all of the pernicious tendency
 to compare and to prefer -an operation that does little good
 even when we are dealing with works of art
 and endless harm when we are dealing with nature.
 Total surrender is the first step towards the fruition of either.
 Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears. 
Take in what is there and give no thought
 to what might have been there or what is somewhere else. 
That can come later, if it must come at all.





~ C. S. Lewis
 from Surprised by Joy

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