Dit is water
21 januari 2013If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already — it’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, bromides, epigrams, parables: the skeleton of every great story. The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.
“Your education really IS the job of a lifetime”…
Kennismaken met David Foster Wallace. Dat is de moeite waard. De introductie wordt verzorgd door Maria Popova, hier en daar.
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'Dat is water', voor degene die dorstig is ? Ik neem zo ff 'n kopje thee 🙂
Proost Joost 🙂
Dank je ! Ik blijk dorstig gelet op mijn reactie op 'Dit is water, deel twee'. Tijd opnieuw voor een kopje thee 🙂