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The Untroubled Mind

Herbert J. Hall

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A very wise physician has said that “every illness has two parts—what it is, and what the patient thinks about it.” What the patient thinks about it is often more important and more troublesome than the real disease. What the patient thinks of life, what life means to him is also of great importance and may be the bar that shuts out all real health and happiness. The following pages are devoted to certain ideals of life which I would like to give to my patients, the long-time patients who have especially fallen to my lot.
edge, but which nevertheless is very real.

I am not satisfied when some moralist says, “Be good and you will be happy.” The kind of happiness that comes from a perfunctory goodness is a thing which I cannot understand, and which I certainly do not want. If I work and play and serve and employ, making up the fabric of a busy life, if I attain a very real happiness, I am tormented by the desire to know why I am doing it, and I am not satisfied with the answer I usually get. The patient may not be cured when he is relieved of his anæmia, or when his emaciation has given place to the plumpness and suppleness and physical strength that we call health. The man whom we look upon as well, and who has never known physical illness, is not well in the larger sense until he knows why he is working, why he is living, why he is filling his life with activity. In spite of the elasticity and spring of the world’s interests, there must come often, and with a kind of fatal insistence, the deep demand for a cause, for a justification. If there is not an adequate significance behind it, life, with all its courage and accomplishment, seems but a sorry thing, so full of pathos, even in its brightest moments, so shadowed with a sense of loss and of finality that the bravest heart may well fail and the truest courage relax, supported only by the assurance that this way lies happiness or that right is right.

What is this knowledge that the world is seeking, but can never find? What is this final justification? If we seek it in its completeness, we are doomed always to be ill and unsatisfied. If we are willing to look only a little way into the great question, if we are willing to accept a little for the whole, content because it is manifestly part of the final knowledge, and bec

Abdullah 02/08/2024
This is a book that try to heal common problems like worrying, overthinking, how to deal with idliness and other mental problems. It is a short and light book that does nit require a lot of concentration. I am familiar with most of the concepts in the book but it is good to remind your self from tim
Sotiris 10/08/2022
I probably have read at least 30 self-improvement books. I can confidently tell that the new ones, those published in the last 20 years, are not worth the effort to read. With minor exceptions, a chapter here and there, a reference to ancient wisdom and perhaps the 20 bucks invested in a self-improv
Sagar 12/01/2021
Dr. Hall, in eleven brief chapters, provides remedies for some of the most common mental illnesses like overthinking, burnout, anxiety, to name a few.

When one comes upon a book that deals with the affairs of the mind, one hopes it to have a mention of the affliction one is supposedly affected by. If
Nev 08/29/2020
100 years did not fundamentally change our views on worry and how to obtain a peace of mind. Some truths are absolute like the one that worrying about worrying cannot solve your worrying. You cannot think yourself out of anxiety, in fact the harder you try to outthink your worrying the more persiste
Hirdesh 08/02/2020
Marvelous !
Vaishali 01/16/2018
Written by a physician in 1915 who apparently treated many workaholics. He's correct that rest is needed for health and a fruitful life; he omits that a certain wealth is needed to create space for restoration, reflection, beauty, and creativity.

Notable quotes :
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"Every illness has tw
Patris 10/03/2017
My mind still troubled after finishing this book
Jake 01/28/2015
Interesting look at the spiritual aspect of well being from the lens of a physician. Nothing new or ground breaking, but a good recap of how "pretending to be happy" like many new age philosophies teach is just that "pretending".

The true way to joy is through our spiritual connection to God. Being t

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