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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

~ C. S. Lewis

 
Hag-ridden by the Future

Image Source: http://images.google.ca/imgres?q=the+future&hl=en&safe=active&biw=1024&bih=508&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=luSQmnyb2suhLM:&imgrefurl=http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2011/07/shaping-future.html&docid=2B6WW3Jk7LjRmM&w=388&h=309&ei=dVlzTt-iKcWk-gbd8ITJDA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=369&vpy=150&dur=408&hovh=200&hovw=252&tx=122&ty=82&page=1&tbnh=142&tbnw=204&start=0&ndsp=8&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0"But we want a man hag-ridden by the Future — haunted by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth . . . "  ~ Screwtape ("The Screwtape Letters," C.S. Lewis)

In folklore, a "hag" is a witch-like spirit identical in essence to the Old English "mare." Thus, a hag is a ghost that visits you in the night -- a nightmare. According to legend, the hag visits its sleeping victim by sitting on his chest.

How many of us live our daily lives hag-ridden by the future? We either fear the future or long for the future. But in either case, we're immoblized--paralyzed--in the present. ...

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