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The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
In positive psychology, a meaningful life is a construct having to do with the purpose, significance, fulfillment, and satisfaction of life. [1] While specific theories vary, there are two common aspects: a global schema to understand one's life and the belief that life itself is meaningful.
Wisdom is a pragmatism of life experiences. [33] Wisdom contains sociality, emotional regulation, prosocial-ness, self-reflection, resilience, decisiveness, and spirituality. [34] Wisdom is morally sound meta-cognition. [35] Early mention of wisdom in Beowulf. Charles Haddon Spurgeon defined wisdom as "the right use of knowledge". [36]
"Life's a climb. But the view is great." There are times when things seemingly go to plan, and there are other moments when nothing works out. During those instances, you might feel lost.
According to the Ekavyāvahārika, the words of the Buddha were spoken with one transcendent meaning, and the Four Noble Truths are to be understood simultaneously in one moment of insight. [196] According to the Mahīśāsaka sect, the Four Noble Truths should be meditated upon simultaneously.
Plato (c. 428 – c. 347 BCE) teaches in the Republic that a life committed to knowledge and virtue will result in happiness and self-realization.To achieve happiness, one should become immune to changes in the material world and strive to gain the knowledge of the eternal, immutable forms that reside in the realm of ideas.
In the sixth book of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, he distinguished the concepts of sophia (wisdom) and phronesis, and described the relationship between them and other intellectual virtues. [4]: VI He writes that Sophia is a combination of nous , the ability to discern reality, and epistēmē , things that "could not be otherwise". [ 5 ]
Śraddhāvimukta (Pāli: saddhāvimutta): one liberated through faith. Dṛṣṭiprāpta (Pāli: diṭṭhippatta): one who has attained right view by cultivating both faith and wisdom. Kāyasākṣin (Pāli: kāyasakkhi): one who directly experiences truth through bodily testimony, such as the meditative absorption in cessation ...