“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to
remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may
one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly
tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now
meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree
helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the

light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the
circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings
with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no
ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal…It is immortals
whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors
or everlasting splendors.”
-C.S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory”