Great books require rereading. Man am I finally starting to “get” what that really means. I still seem to be surprised when I actually apply what I know. In other words, I’ve “known” for quite some time that reading books that are a little or a lot “out of reach” is one of the best means of learning. I’ve just NOT chosen to actually do it.
Why?
Let’s take this a different and similar direction. Let’s take a look at why we find ourselves in much bigger “moral conflicts” than regarding book reading.
Why is it that to be human means to live a life where we KNOW things like “right from wrong” and yet often finds ourselves doing what is wrong in spite of our knowledge? Why is it that the laws that govern nature CANNOT be violated (i.e. you can ignore gravity and in the words of Sponge Bob…good luck with that) and yet the laws of human nature we seemingly, violate all the time? Why is it that we notice these violations so strongly when done to us and yet realize them weakly, if at all, when we violate others?
As many of you know, C.S. Lewis is my favorite author and “Mere Christianity” is one of my favorites of his. I just read it for the third time this past week and felt it came alive. It felt more accessible. I understood a little bit more of his, very thought provoking words. Very cool.
Check it out for yourself, if you want. You’ll find some very stirring answers to the questions posed above.
Here’s one of my favorites thoughts from Clive…
“How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different the saints.”
Hey all you BTL Builders…Go become the original you already are.
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