Das hier ist Wasser / This is Water
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9783941168947
Publish date: March 7th 2012
Publisher: Tacheles
Edition language: Deutsch
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
American,
Self Help,
Education,
Philosophy,
Contemporary,
Psychology
brilliance. uplifting. straight forward. simple, but eloquent and meaningful.
This reminded me of Bertrand Russell's book on happiness. Wallace has the same approach to boredom, routine, and all the other people trapped here on earth with us, milling about getting in our way at the check-out line.
Watch this video today. It was made a few years back. But it is inspiring. This is how I think sometimes, when I'm aware that I got irritated for being in a situation that no one is at fault. It is just the way it is. This is Water- a videoThe full recording.This is Water part 1This is Water part 2O...
brilliance. uplifting. straight forward. simple, but eloquent and meaningful.
"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."I generally refrain from holding authors in such high regard u...
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