Quoting N.S. Lyons, The Self and the Soul: A Dialogue with Freya India , The Upheaval, 2024

I was converted by Dostoevsky and Tolkien, Lewis and Solzhenitsyn, by people who in their genius showed the Truth rather than told it. And, even more than that, by witnessing people I knew and admired who, even when the world was falling apart, even in the face of personal trial and persecution, remained unbowed and undaunted from speaking truth with courage and doing right with love. Invariably I discovered they were people of faith—a quiet, happy, steel faith. Theirs was an evangelism that didn’t need words.

— N.S. Lyons, The Self and the Soul: A Dialogue with Freya India , The Upheaval, 2024

Links to this fragment: An overly critical look at The Self and the Soul

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