Word: detachmentâ
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...Khomeini, the essence of the mystic attitude is detachment???serenity in accepting and preaching God's will. He does feel emotion; intimates insist that with students and his family, he weeps, laughs and even cracks jokes. In public, however, Khomeini will not permit himself to display joy, sorrow, rage or any other emotion. His angriest words are delivered in a soft, uninflected voice that seldom rises above a murmur...
...this takes a certain kind of detachment???a detachment Gould maintains by living and working as much as he can on home territory in Manhattan. His street in Greenwich Village gives him "a nice sense of neighborhood." He leases two floors of a house that is large, respectably old and fairly bursting with the kind of tchotchkies that he and Barbra used to collect?a United Cigar plaque in the downstairs hall, for instance, and a Breyer's Ice Cream sign that hangs in the doorway. The living room contains a Correct Weight penny scale (still functional), a large wall...
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