Tamsen Young

…e this longing often springs from childhood memories or things of beauty, those are mere stand-ins: ultimately we desire “something that has never actually appeared in our experience.” This Lewis identified as our “far-off country,” the home to which we have never been.

…t, the rich German concept C.S. Lewis described as the “inconsolable longing for we know not what.” It is “our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off.”