I can't help but feel like our modern society has sadly become the opposite of what this quote is talking about. Rather than slow and accepting, we're all about doing things fast and efficiently and betterment at all costs. The growth mindset, get up and grind, etc etc. Can't you practice faster? Learn faster? Put in more time? Even the most a human can reasonably do is never enough nowadays. High achievement is the new table stakes.
IMO it's time for our society to take a hike and allow us to return to the spirit of the quote you've shared.
I'm fortunate enough to live in kinda nowhere land considering, so this is from the perspective of nowhere land (people with space and nature etc).
I was hoping that the large COVID response in this country at the start of it all would finally get people to breathe, slow, and all that you mention. For a while , around my location, you could see life almost returning to a more connected to life, life.
When things settled down, nothing much seemed to stick. The rat race restarted the grid is good to go, and the pace ever more frantic.
People can, will, do, and should do whatever it is that makes them live their fulfilled life, 100%.
I just hope they do it for themselves, not for others. Would be a shame.
