[lit-ideas] Re: Happiness or Meaning?
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:21:09 -0400
>>Are happiness and
meaning mutually exclusive?
What is happiness but a life exemplifying some
virtue?
Integrity, courage, truthfulness, kindness,
enthusiasm ...
And what is meaning in life but learning to live
with some virtue? Not virtue as in codified rules
but a mode of living in which we shed some of our
earlier ignorance ... virtue painfully learned,
painfully revised, slowly and partially achieved,
undone and resurrected, tested, forged by our
daily attempts to bear witness to our own
existence? To pay attention. If only just to pay
attention. To pay attention to the smallest thing.
Obviously reading too much Emerson lately,
Eric
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