David Brooks on Desire and the Yearning Soul

David Brooks, a New York Times columnist and author of “The Road to Character,” reflects on his Jewish childhood in New York City, the resonance between Jewish and Christian conceptions of goodness, and the role of desire in faith, moral formation, and higher education.
David Brooks spoke during Fuller’s annual New Year’s event on December 30 and 31, 2018.
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[@mainemavin]

Your words always brighten my listening day. Thank you. David Brooks.

[@mfrmll3786]

How on earth could anyone bring a more poignant and ineffable offering........you have given me SO much in every single word.....I cannot begin to express how beautiful this was...................... ...........how beautiful you ARE and how grateful i am that i heard you share!

[@WHYtheband]

This is the peeling away of social veneers. Powerful. As artists we needed to hear this to go below the surface of success and respect. Wonderful discovery. Thank you FULLER.

[@diegonayalazo]

Thanks for sharing

[@majorharris8194]

13:46 Truth

[@kathri1006]

I do not understand the need for the divine for the attributional need for the sublime and transcendent.
Once one understands how the mind is conditioned and self view is formed from the unconditioned , any human emotion can be included on the conciousness through the cause and effect process, the need for 'I am' identification, disappears, with the accampanied sense of liberation from self. The burden is no more and the need for betterment in duality and searching for the better, extinguishes.