
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 6
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The Catastrophe of Success (1945)
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 6
dril in interviews
Context: Twitter, as I understand it, is a sort of "Hell" that I was banished to upon death in my previous life. In this abstract realm, the only thing I am certain of is that my cries are awarded "Favs" or "RTs" when they are particularly miserable or profane. These ethereal merits do nothing to ease my suffering, but I have deliriously convinced myself that gathering enough of them will impress my unseen superiors and grant me a promotion to a higher plane of existence. This is my sole motivation.
"Odyssey of Faith" in TIME magazine (6 June 1960) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,874166,00.html
Be Here Now (1971)
Context: I realized that although everything by which I knew myself, even my body and this life itself, was gone, still I was fully aware! Not only that, but this aware "I" was watching the entire drama, including the panic, with calm compassion.
Instantly, with this recognition, I felt a new kind of calmness — one of a profundity never experienced before. I had just found that "I", that scanning device — that point — that essence — that place beyond. A place where "I" existed independent of social and physical identity. That which was I was beyond Life and Death. And something else — that "I" Knew — it really Knew. It was wise, rather than just knowledgeable. It was a voice inside that spoke truth. I recognized it, was one with it, and felt as if my entire life of looking to the outside world for reassurance — David Reisman's other-directed being, was over.
“Before i knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone….”
“Life is that which is discontent, which struggles and seeks, which suffers and creates.”
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 1 : Our life begins
“I have always had the joy of life, uncrushably, a sort of inner sunshine that cannot be put out.”
'Queen's Counsel, The Joy of Life', The Birmingham News 1926.