Last night I was thinking of how much books (and their authors) have shaped my life for the better. I am a bigger and better me for having listened to and walked with writers and thinkers.
It’s a hard thing to communicate to someone who hasn’t had the same experience… in many ways, only readers can understand the affect books have on a person.
C.S. Lewis understood this as well as anyone could. He was a true literary man and enjoyed the company of other literary men and women. Listen to how he describes the same feelings I experienced in my meditations last night:
“…in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in a Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”
I completely agree!! So often I have felt emotions that I could never quite put into words,yet Lewis was able to do just that! It’s almost as if he could see into my soul and then wrote down all he saw there. He was and is an amazingly insightful man!