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That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.
My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?
Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.
The people that you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you. When your children see you owned, they are not your children any more, they are the children of what owns you. If money owns you, they are the children of money. If your need for pretense and illusion owns you, they are the children of pretense and illusion. If your fear of loneliness owns you, they are the children of loneliness. If your fear of the truth owns you, they are the children of fear of the truth.
The value of having an inner map of the world as it is (not as it's broadcast) is this: it allows you to know that your task is larger than yourself. If you choose, just by virtue of being a decent person, you are entrusted with passing on something of value through a dark, crazy time-preserving your integrity, in your way, by your acts and your very breathing for those who will build again when this chaos exhausts itself.
Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone.
If they mean it, they need it.
All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.
Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.
Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.
He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he was afraid of women. He had a child because he was afraid of responsibility. Now, his marriage over and his child no longer speaking to him, he turned off all the lights in the house because he was afraid of the dark
The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.
When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose to conduct their lives within the limits of whatever fantasy the government supplies, then they are no longer consenting to be governed, they are begging to be ruled.
In joy, our choices may appear to be few, but one's responses are anything but confined, they're inspired, expanded.
To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind
is to be crazy, not healthy.
