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"This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the "rat race"-the constant gnawin... See more
This is Water - Alumni Bulletin - Kenyon College
If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough.
David Foster Wallace • This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
to be just a little less arrogant, to have some “critical awareness” about myself and my certainties… because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.