The Not-So-Secret Key to Emotional Balance
Crying can help you keep your feelings in check. It’s also inextricably bound up in spirituality.
by Arthur C. Brooks
Apr 13, 2023
3 minutes
“How to Build a Life” is a column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life.
A of mine whom I recently lost spent most of his life near the Severn River in Maryland. The Severn is technically a “tidal estuary”—a brackish inlet off the Chesapeake Bay, where salt water mixes with fresh. “It’s the most human river,” my friend once told me. “It has the precise salinity of human
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