Status Updates From Confessions

“but how can you rise if you are in high places and your clamour reaches heaven? come down from those heights, for then you may climb and, this time, climb to God. to climb against him was your fall”

Now I’m just speeding through to the end. I’m not picking up all Augustine is putting down. It’s all metaphysical and philosophical and over my head, for the most part.

I feel so seen by Augustine. I can't seem to get away from it.