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Living a good life often requires integrating a bundle of contrasts into a durable whole. The psychiatrist Leston Havens explains, in his book Learning to Be Human, that mental health depends on both freedom and compliance, radical independence and persistent loyalty. “My model will be Lincoln,” Havens writes, “who seemed as hard as granite and as soft as a cloud. I will learn to be as strong and as weak as I need to be.”
Lincoln's Melancholy
Joshua Wolf Shenk
On that cedar tree shone, however briefly, the steady, inward flames of eternity; across the mountain by the gas station raced the familiar flames of the falling sun. But on both occasions I thought, with rising exultation, this is it, this is it; praise the lord; praise the land. Experiencing the present purely is being emptied and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
There is a wavering expression in her eyes, like she is a heap of leaves about to be scattered by the wind.
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