In our quest to live a worthwhile life --one we can affirm with a
whole heart --we experience much about life that we cannot affirm.
This confronts us with the question of whether there is something
about life that can take us beyond its times of loss, heartache,
and emptiness, and bring a flourishing that endures. No one can
answer this question for another, of course, but we have much in
common about the fundamentals of life and whatever answer we
achieve will grow out of what we learn from one another. I have
written in this spirit, drawing on what I have learned from others,
especially in teaching philosophy, religion and psychology, working
with those who are dying, bearing the loss of people I have cared
deeply for, and centering my life in times with friends and family
that have brought deep meaning, courage and delight. Whatever
flourishing we achieve will depend, in part, on fate--all the
physical, social and psychological things that happen to us and
that may work for us or against us. This is especially likely to be
an important side of our final stage of life. Our well-being,
though, will also be a matter of how we engage life. Some of this
will be influenced by how we deal with whatever psychological
problems life has brought, but this book focuses, rather, on the
creative, life affirming uses to which we can put our basic human
powers. There are two fundamental perspectives --those we can think
of as secular and transcendental--by which we in the West have been
helped to experience this affirmative feeling for life. I explore
both perspectives for the insights they have to offer and ask what
it is about life, for all of us, that can make possible new
meaning, greater intimacy, and deepened belief.
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