experience I have often thought that the best way…

Keyword peak experience I have often thought that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensively active and alive. At such moments, there is a voice inside which speaks and says, this is the real me. William James.

— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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And here is the deepest test of that self, the one I most want you to keep. The truest measure of a person's character is what he would do if a spell of perfect anonymity were cast over him — if he knew for certain he would never be caught and never be credited. The self that does right with no audience at all is the only self worth becoming. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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