I've been reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, and I love how he puts into words things we often overlook. A lot of his thoughts are not profound, but they express things that we don't always take the time to notice.
I like this quote taken from a chapter on marriage (but it applies to life in general):
"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."
Lewis explains that it's harder than we think for us to separate and distinguish what we've learned from real life experience and what we've seen in movies or on TV or read in books. Much of what we think of as reality isn't reality at all. Scary, huh? What's colouring your experience?
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