There is a dictatorship of happiness as if we have to feel happy all
the time otherwise something is wrong with us. But to really feel happy as well
as to really be kind, we have to feel it is our choice and to be comfortable
with it. If it is just to please an audience we are just into fear or power.
“The only ‘sadnesses’ that are dangerous and
unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them
out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly,
they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more
terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived,
rejected, lost, life that we can die of.”
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
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