January 31st, 2010
The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang
Tags/ Posted by Gretta BarclayHow did I come to feel nothing satisfies more than introspection?continue reading this poem
If you believe Lin Yutang, author of The Importance of Living, man is a curious wayward dreamer who is furiously pursuing all the wrong things. Yutang has a very specific philosophy for living life which will bring genuine contentment, and he begins with the idea of detachment, which is similar to Buddhist philosophy.
