Desiring Escape

For those who, like me, wondered at the lack of God's joy, and sought enjoyment in the things around me to the neglect of my relationship with God, with my family, with my friends, even injuring my knowledge of myself as I lost myself in the stories I read and refused to come back, this is a reminder of
why it is important what our souls thirst after.

From "Subjects with Objects":

"Theoretically, we’re told, a man could gain the whole world and still show a loss on his balance sheet. But at least that guy got the world. What are we getting?

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Here is what it means to structure one’s life around the avoidance of suffering at all costs. Here is what it means to define self and self-worth by the attainment of numbers of things. And it isn’t pretty.

One fades in the pursuit. One is stunted. One forgets who one was, or once longed to be. At the end, one finds oneself haunting the world of material things, no longer fully human. No longer able to even use and appreciate the material blessings of life, for one has become as a ghost among them, unable to define oneself except in relation to things.

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If you’re bartering your soul, please at least ask for something more"