The Untroubled Mind

“The moment we become conscious of worry we are undone,” writes physician Herbert J. Hall. But his answer is not to chase peace—it is to live so fully that worry has less room.

In this early-twentieth-century meditation, Hall considers the uneasy mind from the vantage of a doctor who has seen illness and distress at close range. He argues that serenity does not come from making life run smoothly, or from using religion as a remedy, but from meeting ordinary troubles honestly while reaching toward a larger life. Nature, intuition, work, and the growth of character all offer ways beyond the narrow round of regret and fret. The struggle does not disappear; the question is whether we can rise to meet it from a better level. Can a life made larger quiet the relentless claims of worry?

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