Chase’s Reviews > Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times > Status Update

When I started feeling the drag of winter, I began to treat myself like a favorite child: with kindness and love. I assumed my needs were reasonable, and that my feelings were signals of something important.

When we endlessly ruminate over distant times, we miss ordinary things in the present moment. These extraordinary things are, in actual fact, all we have: the hearing now. The distant perception of our senses.

That we should stop trying to finalize our comfort and security, and instead find a radical acceptance of the endless, unpredictable change that is the very essence of this life.