Jonathan Ash

The man who is contented to be only himself,
and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes
are not enough for me, I will see through those of
others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many,
is not enough. I will see what others have invented ….
in reading great literature I become a thousand men
and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the
Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still
I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral
action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am
never more myself than when I do. -- C.S. Lewis