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Lord of Light quote
Lauren and I are away for the afternoon, evening, and Sunday morning, meeting up with our moms (and Lauren's dad and siblings) to celebrate Mother's Day. Being a bit pressed for time, I thought I'd share this quotation that caught my attention from Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light, which I'm reading with my juniors.
A man is a thing of many divisions, not a clear, pure flame[...]. His intellect often wars with his emotions, his will with his desires ... his ideals are at odds with his environment, and if he follows them he knows keenly the loss of that which was old--but if he does not follow them, he feels the pain of having forsaken a new and noble dream. Whatever he does represents both a gain and a loss, an arrival and a departure. Always he mourns that which is gone and fears some part of that which is new. Reason opposes tradition. Emotions oppose the restrictions his fellow men lay upon him.