David S Harvey’s Reviews > How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now > Status Update

"Space offers us something to love, but time steals away what we love and leaves in the soul crowds of phantasms which incite desire for this or that. Thus the mind becomes restless and unhappy, vainly trying to hold that by which it is held captive. It is summoned to stillness so that it may not love the things which cannot be loved without toil.”

The trick, Augustine says, is to learn to love what you'll lose.

Smith is always fun to read. Surprised to find a positive religious reference to Heidegger in the opening - that’s rare these days, so I’m curious to see how this plays out.