“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds. ”
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