Tuesday, February 8, 2022

The small voice

The ego is a virus, and there is no inoculation against it.
However, it does have an opponent that can take it down.
And that is the small voice that lives at the core of our being.
There is a small voice that lives there.
And, by small, I don’t mean ineffectual.

                Andre De Shields, The New Yorker, January 2022

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