"If anyone thinks that Christians regard unchastity
as the supreme vice, he is quite wrong. The sins
of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of
all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely
spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in
the wrong, of bossing and patronising and
spoiling sport, and backbiting; the pleasures of
power, of hatred. For there are two things inside
me, competing with the human self which I must
try to become. They are the Animal self, and the
Diabolical self. The Diabolical self is the worse of
the two. That is why a cold, self-righteous prig
who goes regularly to church may be far nearer
to hell than a prostitute. But, of course, it is better
to be neither."
Clive Lewis
"Keep safe and don't let the wackadoodles get to you. They got to me and I suspect I will never be the same again." (Friend,AB) "The farsighted tend to get blindsided by the near sighted." Barry Kolb
"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)
"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)
It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The Diabolical Self
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