This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster WallaceMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
"It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars — compassion, love, the subsurface unity of all things."
This is Water is a graduation speech David Foster Wallace gave in 2005 at Kenyon College. The 22 minute speech is available on YouTube. I got the book because I digest the written word better than watching someone speak. It's a short, fast read, easily completed in one sitting, which is great, although I'm still wondering why it cost as much as a whole book.
But I'm very glad I went ahead and got it. His insights and ability to look at things in ways we didn't think of are very eye opening. I especially like how he points out that we all worship something, even atheists; we just have to be aware and choose wisely.
My challenge will be to remember the above quote the next time I'm at the DMV.
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