The Inner Ring
Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things. My second reason is this. The torture allotted to the Danaids in the classical underworld, that of attempting to fill sieves with water, is the symbol not of one vice, but of all vices. It is the very mark of a perv... See more
In describing the power of the inner ring, C.S. Lewis warns that, ”unless you take measures to prevent it, this desire is going to be one of the chief motives of your life, from the first day on which you enter your profession until the day when you are too old to care.” He believed “any other kind of life, if you lead it, will be the result of con
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Lewis says that there’s nothing wrong with inner rings in and of themselves. They’re simply structures filled with people longing to be connected. What he warns us against is our insatiable desire to pursue new rings. Once we recognize this desire, we can choose to give it up.