C.S. Lewis on Desire
Surprised by Joy (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1955), 166.
That walk I now remembered. It seemed to me that I had tasted heaven
then. If only such a moment could return! But what I never realized was
that it had returned; that the remembering of that walk had also
been desire, and only possession in so far as that kind of desire is
itself desirable, is the fullest possession we can know on earth; or
rather, because the very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common
distinction between having and wanting. There, to have is to want and
to want is to have. Thus the very moment when I longed to be so stabbed
again, was itself again such a stabbing.
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