Apr 9, 2019
What happens where there is no audience, nothing he can achieve?
First, there has to be a period of solitude, in the wilderness, where self-reflection can occur...Belden Lane asks in “Backpacking With the Saints.” What happens where there is no audience, nothing he can achieve? He crumbles. The ego dissolves. “Only then is he able to be loved.” That’s the key point here. The self-centered voice of the ego has to be quieted before a person is capable of freely giving and receiving love.
~ David Brooks, The Moral Peril of Meritocracy (NY Times, April 6, 2019)
