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I still take great pleasure in playing around with philosophical questions, the ones that [Bertrand] Russell is the first to admit have no unequivocal answers. . . . I guess this quality makes me a Cerebral Hedonist, although some would say it makes me a mental masochist.
With nothing meaningful in life, nothing is interesting. Enter boredom. A bored man even longs for longing. He has time to fill, but there is nothing compelling to do.
This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.
I now realize that I habitually fight against a leisurely pace; I resist giving in to slowness.
Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.
Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.
Moses trudges down from Mt. Sinai, tablets in hand, and
announces to the assembled multitudes: "I've got good news and
I've got bad news. The good news is I got Him down to ten. The
bad news is 'adultery' is still in.
There is no rest for the striver. Just beyond the completion of each goal on our life-achievement "bucket list" looms another goal, and then another. Meanwhile, of course, the clock is ticking - quite loudly, in fact. We become breathless. And we have no time left for a calm and reflective appreciation of our twilight years, no deliciously long afternoons sitting with friends or listening to music or musing about the story of our lives. And we will never get another chance for that.
