good counsel for melancholics such as 'moi meme'

For the world and time are the dance of the Lord in emptiness.
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast.
The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life,
the more we analyze them out into strange finalities
and complex purposes of our own,
the more we involve ourselves in sadness, absurdity, and despair.
But it does not matter much,

because

 
no despair of ours
can alter the reality of things,
or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.

Indeed, we are in the midst of it,
and it is in the midst of us,
for it beats in our very blood,
whether we want it to or not.
Yet the fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose,
cast our awful solemnity to the winds
and join in the general dance.

- Thomas Merton
New Seeds of Contemplation

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