Posts tagged "gentleness"

Thoughts / November 29, 2025

Five Remedies for Sorrow

1. Pleasure (excepting sin)
walking, reading, slowly, softly

2. Tears
slowly, softly

3. The compassion of friends
Rilke, Teddy, Toni, Jonathan

4. Contemplation of the truth
I need do nothing.

5. Sleep and baths
slowly, softly

—Saint Thomas Aquinas

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