Sorrow Is Surrender

From my last reading for Philosophy

” Looking at middle-class life in America, one finds strikingly few people who are actually living the good life. Instead we live at a frantic pace. We live lives filled with anxiety, filled with hassles and headaches and hard edges. What is most absent from our lives is gracefulness. This I have understood in terms of beauty, an aesthetic of time, inner peacefulness, appreciativeness, and generosity of spirit. To live gracefully is to have mastered an art of living— and as with most art, true mastery requires inner development.”

-Jerome Segal

My book is full of little gems like these.