What I think is true is that at a certain stage in his life he deliberately ceased to take any interest in himself except as a kind of spiritual alumnus taking his moral finals.. Self-knowledge for him had come to mean recognition of his own weakness and shortcomings and nothing more. Anything beyond that he sharply suspected, both in himself and in others, as a symptom of spiritual megalomania. At best, there was so much else, in letters and in life, that he found much more interesting! As far as I am able to judge, it was this that lay behind that distinctive combination of an almost supreme intellectual and 'phantastic' maturity, laced with moral energy, on the one hand, with..a certain psychic or spiritual immaturity on the other. Jocelyn Gibb
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The above quote was written by C.S. Lewis, a Christian apologist and English writer, in his book "The Four Loves." In this book, he was speaking about how there are certain stages in people's lives that they must pass through. One of these stages is when a person reaches adolescence. Adolescence can be quite stressful and confusing for some people and may cause them to question what is right and wrong.

Unfortunately, this is also the time when many teens begin to take painkillers and alcohol because of the stress they may be feeling. As a result, they may not know what is good for them or who to trust in life.

Source: Light On C. S. Lewis

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