C.S. Lewis

I am stealing this quote from an article I just read, and from C.S. Lewis' book Mere Christianity.  Call me a double-thief, but this quote is worth it.  I read this book back in high school but didn't understand it/make the effort to understand it as well as I should have.  Maybe I'll be re-adding it to my summer reading list just to brush up, but since it's snowing now...

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.  If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it that does not prove that the universe is a fraud.  Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing.  If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage.  I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same."