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Meditation on Leaving the Toolshed

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Aaron Earls
Sep 10, 2025
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In one of C.S. Lewis’ most famous essays, “Meditation in a Toolshed,” he outlines the distinction between “looking at,” knowledge gained from analyzing something from the outside, and “looking along,” knowledge gained from experiencing something from the inside.1

Think of this as a meditation on leaving the toolshed th…

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