Sublime

I would burn up the coarse, outer social protections and strategies in order to be free—not of life but for life, for living every day with a newly born engagement with whatever would arise.

Once the congregation concedes to helping people find fullness through busyness, it sets itself up to lose them.

Existential ideas and attitudes have embedded themselves so deeply into modern culture that we hardly think of them as existentialist at all. People (at least in relatively prosperous countries where more urgent needs don’t intervene) talk about anxiety, dishonesty and the fear of commitment. They worry about being in bad faith, even if they don’t

Augustine represents the Christianity Camus doesn’t believe, which might make him more Augustinian than he realizes—and might make us more Augustinian than we imagined. An Augustinianism sans grace might nonetheless be a gateway.

Moreover,

Camus veut que chacun soit ici-bas un dieu pour lui-même – leçon de philosophie, leçon hédoniste, leçon épicurienne, leçon nietzschéenne, leçon libertaire.