charlie 🕯
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C.S. Lewis/Tolkien/Dostoevsky appreciator ~ Ecclesiastes 1:18 ~ "What is to give light must endure burning" - Viktor Frankl
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I am haunted by every moment I could have been better
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Is there a career for people who are too whimsy for blue collar, too based for academia, too spiritual for corporate, and too weak for medicine?
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Finding reading/writing Twitter was the best thing that ever happened to me. Discovered Dostoevksy, Tolstoy, Kierkegaard, etc. and even MORE C.S. Lewis and Tolkien. Now I pour over PDFs and furiously scribble down phrases you all tweet. Incredible. God bless each of you.
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Me, flirting:
"So... I have a lot of books... and you have a lot of books... what if we combined our books and had even more books... together..."
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"You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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The last sentence of Crime and Punishment. Hard to read through tears.
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“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life."
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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The C.S. Lewis posts will continue until societal morality improves.
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My dad wrote my mother poetry when they were courting, so I grew up thinking this is what all men did when they liked you. Then I started dating and got emoji's.
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I find God at church, on walks, and in the FedEx delivery driver's wave. Through my mother's smile, the store clerk's patience, and on pages of novels written long ago. He's in the eyes of my favourite person, the words of my cousin, and the work of my father.
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@DylanoA4
That's why C.S. Lewis said something along the lines of you cannot love others until you love yourself and you cannot love yourself until you love God. Ourselves are the lens through which we see the world and God. Looking up to look within so you can properly look out.
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One of the more humbling parts of walking is passing multiple homes and realizing each door is a portal to an infinite world you know nothing about.
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“When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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Mere Christianity, Chapter 9 - Charity
One of my favourite paragraphs in the whole world
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
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I have to re-read this quote at least once a week, sometimes more.
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“Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become that child again: even now.”
― C.S. Lewis
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It is the magician’s bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.
- CS Lewis, 1943
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"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is."
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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"Your worst sin is that you've destroyed and betrayed yourself for the Algorithm."
- Dostoevsky, 2024
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I won the lottery in my personal life and it has nothing to do with money. God is so good.
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C.S. Lewis said to love is to be vulnerable and if we love, our hearts will be wrung and possibly broken. We cannot make someone love us back. We cannot always get what we want, but we can have what's good for us. And what is good for us, what is meant for us, it will endure.
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Politics aside, the Olympics are a beautiful display of God making us in His image. You can't tell me your heart doesn't leap for joy when you see someone flip elegantly through the air and stick a landing. Watching athletes complete superhuman feats is mesmerizing for a reason.
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"This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption"
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It is so heartwarming to see how many people enjoy reading C.S. Lewis on here. Absolute white-pill.
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Men don't write passionate declarations of independence to their tyrannical overlords anymore, and it shows
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Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it--made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
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Maybe I'm old?? I gave up Facebook, Snapchat, Netflix, Hulu, etc. years ago. Barely look at Instagram. Never ever wanted to touch TikTok.
YouTube, Twitter, Spotify, & DVDS are PLENTY. Even then, I need breaks from everything. Am I the only one who is overstimulated/exhausted?
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C.S. Lewis taught us love's value does not rest upon reciprocity. Some people will not appreciate/value your love, your time, your attention no matter how hard you try. Accept and let go, not everyone can or should speak the language of your soul.
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I love C.S. Lewis so much if you are to be with me you must love him too. We are a packaged deal.
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my good tweets are divinely inspired; my bad tweets are remnants of the Fall
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Project 2025: reading all the books you said you would before buying a new book
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Walking is spiritually anabolic and meditative. Walking transcends you while simultaneously grounding you. Walking is magical.
A ludicrous amount of the greatest thinkers in human history cited long walks as the blueprint for developing a healthy and powerful mind, but yeah don't worry you're different
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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
― C.S. Lewis
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“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
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"What is to give light must endure burning."
— Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy
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As C.S. Lewis reminded us, Hope is a virtue.
"Aim at Heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth, and you will get neither."
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I regret to announce this is the end (temporarily). I'm going now (twitter hiatus). I bid you all a very fond farewell (probably be back tomorrow)
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Horrified some parents don't read to their precious children. I want to read to every child - introduce them to Narnia, Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the One Hundred Acre Wood, fairytales, etc.
Even pre-reading C.S. Lewis and Dumas in my mind to any possible future babies.
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All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.
― C.S. Lewis
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"Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become that child again: even now."
- C.S. Lewis
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“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most expensive gift anyone can give you is their full and undivided attention.
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Can someone explain why I, a millennial, who grew up on the Berenstein Bears and Richard Scarry, is appalled/troubled by the kids shows today such as Bluey or Cocomelon? Why is it so harsh to my eyes and ears? Why do I get a bad feeling every time I see kids watching it?
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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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have to take my intrusive thoughts for daily walks so they get all tuckered out and don't keep me up at night
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chronically online instead of building an empire all by yourself handsome?
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Had a dream I pulled up the ocean floor and found the underworld
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If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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Sometimes you meet people and their energy glows right out of their chest, like you've just met sunshine. They are truly the most beautiful people in the whole world.
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"Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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On my nightly walk, I pass assisted living homes. There's an elderly couple who keep their blinds open sometimes. Often I see her feeding him, or them reading together, or they wave at me & every time I tear up.
"We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone."
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Shoot. Talked about abortion being a sacrifice to Moloch before 9am at work. My poor coworker was not prepared.
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“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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“The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real."
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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...for all is like an ocean, all is flowing and blending; a touch in one place sets up movement at the other end of the earth.
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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God blessed me with beautiful people who fill my life with love, joy, and laughter and some days I do not feel like I deserve it.
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Marcus Aurelius said the soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts and he was right. Someone has been on my mind so much their pigment coats my soul.
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I regret to announce this is the end (temporarily). I'm going now (twitter hiatus). I bid you all a very fond farewell (probably be back tomorrow)
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I'm self-sufficient (can break my own heart without any help)
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All these new people are going to quickly find out I am, in fact, ridiculous.
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"Her voice reminds him of something he has been trying to remember all his life, and ten minutes casual chat with her is more precious than all the favours that all other women in the world could grant."
C.S. Lewis had romance in his veins.
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"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - G.K. Chesterton
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Read Dostoevsky, cry, walk, pray, ice cream, repeat.
People who don't drink or smoke, what do you do when you are at your lowest?
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One time I wrote a list of every single person who touched my life in a profound way.. from teachers to family to friends to strangers. I think about these people often and feel such an immense gratitude to each and every soul. There's never enough thank yous or enough time.
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A deep, aching gratitude for all who have touched my life fuels my existence
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"Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality."
- C.S. Lewis, Membership
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Nothing makes me believe in the immortal soul more than having an interaction with a stranger at the post office and realizing I just encountered an everlasting being who helped me solve a little problem (getting my things from Point A to Point B). What a magical moment it was.
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Idk what this means, but I keep getting glimpses of unbridled joy at the thought of someone. As if I get to see them, truly, in all their imperfect splendour. Their immortal soul glows, illuminating all the dark corners in my heart.
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