Sentences with phrase «sort of contentment»

I can not deny that this exhortation to undergo a thorough «ascesis of desire» has brought a sort of contentment to many.

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I see it as a sort of a concession I'll have to make if I don't have the faith to find contentment in my God alone.

And by disbelief I do not mean some sort of brave rejection of the doctrine, some defiant demand flung at heaven for possession of one's own soul; I mean merely the impotence of an imagination that finds the very notion of sin incomprehensible, the conscience of a man who is sure that, whatever sin might be, it surely lies lightly upon a soul as decent as his own, and can be brushed off with a single casual stroke of a primly gloved hand; I mean an habitual insensibility to the illuminations and chastisements of beauty, a condition of being wholly at home in a world from which mystery and sin and glory have all been banished, and in which spiritual wretchedness has become material contentment.

I'm starting to think the secret of contentment is not learning how to «escape» from life but to enjoy it for what it is — not sorting out the conditions just so, finding someway to stop the boat's rocking, but learning to keep your balance no matter how smooth or rough the seas.