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Varieties of Melancholy: A Hopeful Guide to Our Sombre Moods

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Varieties of Melancholy: A Hopeful Guide to Our Sombre Moods

Penned By The School of Life
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An insightful and consoling guide to the melancholic state of mind.This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn’t depression, rage, or bitterness. It’s a serene, wise, and kindly response to the difficulties of being alive. It helps us navigate a wise and rational middle ground between extreme despair and naïve optimism.But melancholy is a well-kept secret. It isn't celebrated or recommended. It remains relatively unexplored in a hyper-competitive, noisy, frantic age.This book carefully collects and interprets a wide range of universally recognizable forms of melancholy, rendering us less confused by our precious yet elusive feelings. We discover everything from the melancholy of a Sunday evening and the melancholy of adolescence to the melancholy of parties and the infatuated melancholy of having a crush.Offering a rich and varied portrait of melancholy and its range of emotions, this book leads the reader toward deeper insight, more authentic acceptance, and more honest self-compassion.* AN IN-DEPTH EXPLORATION OF A COMPLEX EMOTION through the lens of art, architecture, literature, and philosophy.* HOW TO INTERPRET AND ACCEPT our melancholy moods.* INCREASE SELF AWARENESS through meditating on melancholy.* EXAMINES 35 VARIETIES OF MELANCHOLY including: Dating and Melancholy, Loneliness and Melancholy, Adolescence and Melancholy, and Politics and Melancholy.

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Length 176 Pages
Language Eng
Released 2021
Identifier (ISBN) 58859119
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The School of Life is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, The School of Life can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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