Greetings Readers!
Thank you to all who participated in our Happiness & the Meaning of Life course. This four-week course embarked on a philosophical study of the art (and science) of living well. Below is the final meditation of the course on Discerning Life’s Questions (along with links to the previous meditations).
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“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
— Alan Watts
Over the last four weeks, we’ve taken what could be called a 10,000-foot view of the art and science of living well. We turned to figures like Seneca, Aristotle, the Buddha, the field of positive psychology, and many others for insights.
Similar to our previous course on Perennial Habits, we discussed discerning the way or the discipline of clarity. Interestingly, our uniqueness demands that we all discern our own way in life. Swiss psychologist Carl Jung observed, “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Discerning life’s questions is about intentionally discerning the path(s) we walk in life. And we are all wise to inquire within about our lives periodically. How much clarity do you have on the direction of your life? How comfortable are you with questions that have no answer?
