Is there a cure for sadness?

@Suzianne said
Indeed! (With humility, of course.)

😉 That's hard when you already knows everything. cough, cough, choke! 😳

@Suzianne said

My favorite carol is LDB.

Have you ever considered relocating to Pahrump, Nevada?

@Suzianne said
And Sadness is not a malady, it is a healthy reaction to the way some people are.

"Unhappy, darling?"

@Suzianne said
Thumbs are opinion.

You denigrate people for their opinion ALL the time.

But only when it badmouths YOU.

Interesting.

@Indonesia-Phil said
This is true, the odd thing being that (I find) some upbeat music can make a low moment worse, whereas certain melancholic music can lift you out of it. If I'm having a 'feeling sorry for myself' moment, a bit of Enya does it for me, or Sandy Denny in her 'sad refrain' mode. Cheers me up no end, weird. Abba at their worst can destroy my state of mind wherever it starts ...[text shortened]... I'm from the old school, being a person of advanced years, there are probably modern equivalents...

Yeah, it makes sense to me that melancholic music could provide a sense of acceptance and commiseration that would be more helpful than external attempts to impose cheer, whether by upbeat music or perky people with good intentions.

@Arkturos said
"Unhappy, darling?"

Not at all.

Do you actually have a job?

@Suzianne said
And Sadness is not a malady, it is a healthy reaction to the way some people are.

As always, the trick is how you respond.

"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."

Rainer Maria Rilke

@moonbus said
"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."

Rainer Maria Rilke

wow I didn't know that was from Rilke, I had heard it attributed to Rosenberg...


Vielleicht ist alles Schreckliche im Grunde das Hilflose, das von uns Hilfe will.

Rilke, Briefe an einen jungen Dichter (Franz Xaver Kappus), 1903-1908. 12. August 1904
I will do the correct attribution from now on.

@Ponderable said
wow I didn't know that was from Rilke, I had heard it attributed to Rosenberg...

I have seen many wrongly attributed quotes on the Internet, especially to Thomas Jefferson. One often does not know with Internet sites, how reliable they are, and I haven't the patience to re-read Rilke in the original to find it myself ....

This was my source:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/rainer-maria-rilke-quotes

I do wish such sites would provide 'chapter & verse'; it would increase their street cred considerably.

@moonbus said
I have seen many wrongly attributed quotes on the Internet, especially to Thomas Jefferson. One often does not know with Internet sites, how reliable they are, and I haven't the patience to re-read Rilke in the original to find it myself ....

This was my source:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/rainer-maria-rilke-quotes

I do wish such sites would provide 'chapter & verse'; it would increase their street cred considerably.

I had found the source as quoted in my post. This seems to be the real thing (if not Rilke had lifted that one from someone).

@Suzianne said
Not at all.

Do you actually have a job?

I hope not! *breaks out into a cold sweat*

But I do still have work-related dreams which are not quite nightmares, but almost.

@Ponderable said
wow I didn't know that was from Rilke, I had heard it attributed to Rosenberg...


Vielleicht ist alles Schreckliche im Grunde das Hilflose, das von uns Hilfe will.

Rilke, Briefe an einen jungen Dichter (Franz Xaver Kappus), 1903-1908. 12. August 1904
I will do the correct attribution from now on.

cc @moonbus

This reminds me to move that book closer to the top of my reading pyramid.

(I knew of Rilke from my early interest in Boris Pasternak and have read a few of his poems in translation.)

@moonbus said
"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Very good.

These are the times we live in, nothing is as it appears.

@moonbus said
"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."

Rainer Maria Rilke

I have at times wondered if the putative God of the Cosmos might also hope for our forgiveness and understanding.

@Suzianne said
Very good.

These are the times we live in, nothing is as it appears.

Some things are probably exactly as they appear, and other things maybe not (how's that for a compromise?).

Got any Sufi books in your library? 😉