There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Arguments have to be followed and instructions have to be understood, but beauty reaches you before any of that. A piece of music, a view at dusk or a kind face can move something deep in you in an instant, bypassing the part of the mind that weighs and resists. Whatever you take the soul to be, beauty finds its way to the part of you that thinking does not quite reach.

When you feel numb or overloaded, reasoning with yourself may not help much. Try putting yourself in the path of something beautiful instead: a walk, a song, a painting. Let it do what explanation cannot.