Were ever a process of life communicate and eagerness…
Page 153. Were ever a process of life communicate and eagerness to him who lives it, they’re the life becomes genuinely significant. Sometimes the eagerness is more-knit p with the motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions, sometimes with the imagination, sometimes with reflective path. But, wherever it is found, there is the zest, the tingle, excitement of reality, and there is importance in the only real and positive sense in which importance ever anywhere can be. Zest is the feeling of a keen passion. When my sick soul struggles I think, because I can’t find a generate or even feign the zest. James is right that it can be found everywhere In Activity, perception, imagination, or reflection. Which I have to say, is a little comfort when I can’t find it anywhere. In these moments I often make like Gertrude Stein and identify what I find most zest less so to speak, but leaves me feeling totally numb or empty.
— from Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)