And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1984). The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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