When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences I often read poetry.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.
When music fails to agree to the ear to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses then it has missed the point.
O! many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Surfing soothes me it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent peaceful and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.