Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central
part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a
little different from what it was before. And, taking your
life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your
life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into
a Heaven creature or into a hellish creature -- either into a
creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures,
and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and
hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures and with itself.
To be the one kind of creature is Heaven: that is, it is joy,
and peace, and knowledge, and power. To be the other means
madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal
loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the
one state or the other.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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