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It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

C. S. Lewis
Inspirational, Sunshine, Reflection
C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.