The Happiness of Pursuit: What Science and Philosophy Can Teach Us About the Holy Grail of Existence | Brain Pickings

The Happiness of Pursuit: What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About the Good Life by Cornell University psychology professor Shimon Edelman  is "an attempt to understand, in a deeper sense than merely metaphorical, what it means to be human and how humans are shaped by the journey thorough this world, which the poet John Keats called ‘the vale of soul-making’ — in particular, how it puts within the soul’s reach ‘a bliss peculiar to each one’s individual existence.’"
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