The Healing Power of Poetry Pt1 (Daymakers S02Ep16)

The Daymakers read a passage from John Stuart Mill's Autobiography in which the author discusses a period of severe depression in his life and how his education, steeped in rationalism, lacked any training of the passions and, more broadly, of his inner world. Ironic that in his pursuit of happiness, happiness itself evaded him, in fact, abandoned him, and this set him seeking both the cause of his emotional trouble and its cure.