How to Live

A friend of mine sent me a biography of Montaigne told through the guidance offered through the Essays of how to live well. Living well is defined, in this case, as how to exist with a stronger and stronger connection to one's humanity. The biography, and the Essays, which I plan to read next, seem to explain something comforting about rich existence which should be more obvious than it is. Our humanity is multi-dimensional with much depth in each dimension. In order to experience it in its grandeur, we need to live in it as it comes to us, and hold back our minds from constructing a simplified, poorer version of it in which to live instead.