This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occ...

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

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2005 Kenyon Commencement Address

David Foster Wallace's commencement address emphasizes the importance of awareness, choice, and how to think critically about everyday experiences, encouraging graduates to live consciously and meaningfully amidst life's challenges.

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If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

Dan Wakefield

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TWENTY WAYS TO MATTER

Excavate the truth beneath the truth beneath the truth —
the deeper you go, the simpler it gets:
the longing, love, insecurity, rage, loss —
all of it part of the same fabric,
all just a story
emerging from the quantum foam.

Move through the world
knowing that everyone around you
is doing the best they can,
that humanity is capable
of th