It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, …

C. S. Lewis
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It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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