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In Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, the profoundly human (i.e., imperfect) teacher, Hector, reminds his students that “The best moments in reading are when you come across something—a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things—that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met,... See more

I heard an amazing thing yesterday. The Irish poet David Whyte was quoting somebody else when he said: the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest. It’s wholeheartedness.

Sometimes when you do things that lie on the periphery of your will, you stay there, pile up the angst, exhaustion, the despair.

You are ripening on the vine and you will... See more