I discovered the series “This I Believe” on NPR. It has a wonderful variety of stories and perspectives by celebrities and the general public.
I believe that a little outrage can take you a long way. I remember the exact moment when I discovered outrage as a kind of fuel. I am deeply familiar with that hollow place that outrage carves in your soul. I've fed off of it to sustain my work for many years. But it hasn't eaten me away completely, maybe because the hollow place gets filled with other, more powerful things like compassion, faith, family, music, the goodness of people around me. These things fill me up and temper my outrage with a deep sense of gratitude that I have the privilege of doing my small part to make things better.
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Einstein: I am satisfied with … a glimpse into the marvelous construction of the world and a determination to comprehend a tiny portion of the reason that manifests itself in nature. This is the basis of cosmic religiosity, and it appears to me that the most important function of art and science is to awaken this feeling among the receptive and keep it alive.
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