What is the answer to the question of purpose within life?
I belive the answer can be found only by understanding the kind of crature that we ar, divided in the many ways we are divided.
We are shaped by individual selection to be selfish creatures who struggle for resouces, pleasure and prestige, and we are shaped by group selection to be hive creatures who long to lose ourselves in something larger.
We are social creatures who need love and attachments and we are industrious creatureswith needs for effectance able to enter a state of vital engagement with our work.
I don't belive there is an inspiring answer to the question " What is the purpose of life? "
Yet by drawing an ancient wisdom and modern scince , we can find compelling answers within life.
The final version of the happiness hypothesis is that happiness comes from between.
Happiness is not something you find , acquire or achieve directly.
You have to get to the conditions right and then wait.
Some of those conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you.
Just as plants need sun, water, and good soil to thrive, people need work, love and connection to something larger.
It is worth striving to get the right relationships between yourself and others, between your self and work , and between yourself and something larger than your self.
If you get these relationships right, a sense of purpose and meaning will emerge.
This beautiful peace has been taken from a great book
" The Happiness Hypothesis"by Jonathan Haidt.
Remember if you take it as a chose it will feel painful,
is a journey and is not predictable but more tools and frinds you have the better it will feel.
What are your thoughts on happiness, how do you definy it and how to you achieve it??????
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