The Meaning of Life: The true ingredients of fulfilment
“human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others. These values are considered "intrinsic" to human happiness and far outweigh "extrinsic" values such as beauty, money and status.”
Sebastian Junger • Tribe — Sebastian Junger
men and women are actually wanting the same naked intensity of perfect bliss, which is their own true nature. They want to enjoy the absolute fullness of life pervaded by the absolute openness of consciousness. In any moment you are able to be who you are, deeply and without effort, fulfillment is perfect, love is complete, freedom is endless.
David Deida • Finding God Through Sex: Awakening the One of Spirit Through the Two of Flesh
WHAT DO WE want when we want to have sex? More starkly: what are we hoping for when we imagine happiness looks like having as much sex as possible?
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
The second way of finding a meaning in life is by experiencing something—such as goodness, truth and beauty—by experiencing nature and culture or, last but not least, by experiencing another human being in his very uniqueness—by loving him.