The Shared Experience

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Passed along by Alex Berezow, Executive Editor, Big Think Newsletter

Our Tendency to Self-Segregate

“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they do not know each other; they do not know each other because they cannot communicate; they cannot communicate because they are separated.”

A. Philip Randolph

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That Terrible and Universal Vice Which Is, Most Essentially, Competitive

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others. If every one else became equally rich, or clever, or good-looking there would be nothing to be proud about. It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.”

C.S. Lewis

Christian Behaviour, Chapter 8

On Progress

“We all want progress.  But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be.  And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.  If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”

C.S. Lewis

Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe, Chapter 5

An Historical Event

“After spending more than seven hundred hours studying this subject and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I came to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is either one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted on humanity, or it is the most important fact in history.  The Resurrection takes the question ‘Is Christianity valid?’ out of the realm of philosophy and makes it a question of history.”

Josh McDowell

From the book, More Than a Carpenter