There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry for instance still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially it takes over your spirit.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth and truth rewarded me.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth and truth rewarded me.