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The best thing I have heard in a long time…
“We are tempted to reduce life to a simple search for happiness. Happiness, however, withers if there is no meaning. The other temptation
is to disavow the search for happiness in order to be faithful to that which provides meaning. But to live only for meaning–indifferent to all happiness–makes us fanatic, self-righteous, and cold. It leaves us cut off from our own humanity and the humanity of others. We must hope for grace, for our lives to be sustained by moments of meaning andhappiness, both equally worthy of human communion.”
— Chris Hedges,
_War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning_
is to disavow the search for happiness in order to be faithful to that which provides meaning. But to live only for meaning–indifferent to all happiness–makes us fanatic, self-righteous, and cold. It leaves us cut off from our own humanity and the humanity of others. We must hope for grace, for our lives to be sustained by moments of meaning andhappiness, both equally worthy of human communion.”
— Chris Hedges,
_War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning_