Posted on by Mr. LJ

“A man’s real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.”

A quote from a Joseph Conrad’s “Under Western Eyes”, by which I am reminded of St.Benedict’s reflections on the acquisition of self-knowledge as something unachievable through self-scrutiny, but only through the eyes of others. LJ

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