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David Brooks

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2019-05-20
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  1. “I had a college student come up to me and I was talking about suffering and what it can teach. And she said, I haven't really suffered that much. Should I go find some? I said, don't worry.”

    2019-05-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · David Brooks: The Quest for a Moral Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I like a phrase that we writers are beggars who tell other beggars where we found bread. We found it here. I'm going to share it with you. And then you write to, I think Kafka has a sentence. A book should be an axe for the frozen sea inside of you. And so it should chop you up a little. And I'm a writer, that's how I express myself. So I wanted to write my way to a better life. And so what I did was I did a lot of reading and interviewing and thinking, how do people pull themselves out of alley's? And then for five years, I did that and I share it here.”

    2019-05-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · David Brooks: The Quest for a Moral Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Yeah, and I had one, but not the other. And I didn't have people over, and so if you went into my kitchen drawers where there should have been silverware, I just had post-it notes. And when there should have been plates, I just had like stationary because my life was all work and workholism is a way to avoid an emotional and spiritual problem. And so that was a period where it manifested itself sort of as a pain in the stomach. Loneliness is a pain in the stomach. And a kind of permanent drunkenness, I wasn't really thinking right. And I look back on that period, I listened to all these sad Irish songs. And it was a low point. We all have low points. My mom died a couple year and a half ago. And that was a low point. But the low point of 2013 was my fault. And so that feels a little different.”

    2019-05-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · David Brooks: The Quest for a Moral Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “And then, even though I communicate for a living, I was a really bad communicator of what was in my heart was not coming out of my mouth, and I was not really focusing or spending time on my friends. I'd come to value time over people. So I always wanted to be productive, so I was always on the move. And so there I was in the winter and fall of 2013, and my marriage ended, my kids had left for college and about to. And I was in an apartment alone. And I had weekday friends, people I could go to lunch with and talk about work, but I didn't have any weekend friends, which are the real kind of friends. And so, and I never had anybody over.”

    2019-05-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · David Brooks: The Quest for a Moral Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Yeah, I had fallen for the lies that our culture tells us. One of them is that career success will lead fulfillment and career success has not done that for me. I don't know if it does it for others, but it has not done that for me. It's just made ambitions that are always leaping ahead. I got to do something else.”

    2019-05-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · David Brooks: The Quest for a Moral Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “They're not seeing your soul. And then when somebody's even somebody took a laptop from my home a few years ago, you felt that violation that they didn't see me. And decency is about seeing deeply into the roots of other people. All these sexual harassment cases on campus, if we would just treat each other as possessors of infinite souls, then you know how to behave in those situations.”

    2019-05-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · David Brooks: The Quest for a Moral Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Because it's so important to have that concept that each individual has a soul. And in the book, I say, I'm not going to try to persuade you that God exists or not. That's not my job. But I do ask you to believe that you have some piece of you that has no size, weight, color, or shape, but is of infinite dignity and value. And rich people don't have more of this than poor people, old don't have more of it than young, but that our soul is slavery is wrong because it's an obliteration of a soul, that rape isn't just an attack on a bunch of physical molecules. It's an attempt to insult a soul. And the level we're all equal at is we're not equal in our brains and in our muscles, but we're all equal in the soul. And if you don't have that concept of a soul, you really are dehumanized, I think.”

    2019-05-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · David Brooks: The Quest for a Moral Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “About finding yourself. You know, all these shootings we've had are about a lot of things. There's about guns and there's a lot like that. But they're almost always about one lonely person in a room who gets himself radicalized by himself, who wants to leap from insignificance to somehow infamy by doing some horrible thing. But then to mention that word sold, that's become a powerful word for me. I mean, Super Soul Sunday.”

    2019-05-20 · Oprah's Super Soul · David Brooks: The Quest for a Moral Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source