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August 31, 2015
"We have come to the wrong star."
We did not speak again until we had left Lierre, in its sacred cloud of rain, and were coming to Mechlin, under a clearer sky, that even made one think of stars.Then I leant forward and said to my friend in a low voice--"I have found out everything. We have come to the wrong star." He stared his query, and I went on eagerly: "That is what makes life at once so splendid and so strange. We are in the wrong world. When I thought that was the right town, it bored me; when I knew it was wrong, I was happy. So the false optimism, the modern happiness, tires us because it tells us we fit into this world. The true happiness is that we don't fit. We come from somewhere else. We have lost our way." G K Chesterton's Essay: The Ballade Of A Strange Town
Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 31, 2015 9:27 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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This is a very important insight.
If human beings truly emerged from a meaningless process of chance variation and natural selection, we would expect to be fully of this world, completely at home in it, and very well satisfied with it.
The fact that we experience the world as imperfect, wrong, and lacking in so many ways, the fact that we have a sense of tragedy, demonstrates that we are not fully of this world, that our lives partake of a dimension that is other and beyond it.
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at August 31, 2015 1:14 PM
It's God's world. We're just living in it.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew 6:18-21
Posted by: chasmatic at August 31, 2015 8:09 PM