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We might find, too, a renewed experience of community and friendship. C. S. Lewis, in writing about friendship, noted that lovers are absorbed in each other’s gaze, friends however are bound by a looking, not at each other, but in the same direction, which implies a common world or a common task or common loves. The image suggests that if we have no common world to look toward together, if we are captivated by our own private virtual worlds, friendship falters.
There appears to be a law that when creatures have reached the level of consciousness, as men have, they must become conscious of the creation; they must learn how they fit into it and what its needs are and what it requires of them, or else pay a terrible penalty: the spirit of the creation will go out of them, and they will become destructive; the very earth will depart from them and go where they cannot follow.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
So we concentrated, and opened our minds, and felt around for something else, for something more. We were the original never-satisfieds.
Only Forward
Michael Marshall Smith
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