Lets say you had a choice before you. To settle and be unbelievably happy in a kind and humble life with a family and career or to travel the world alone doing Great deeds changing the lives of many thousands somehow for the better but you missed the happiness that would come from love and settlement and belonging. Which would you choose and if you wouldn't how would you hope to compromise between the two?
2006-06-20 07:25:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There is no ultimate good nor ultimate happiness. I believe that the extremes fade into illusion. Furthermore I believe that good and happiness are inextricably linked.
There comes a time for all thinking spiritual beings when we have to choose between taking further steps on the road of enlightenment or stop and go back and help others catch up.
Sometimes this is characterised by a difficult decision: do I go forward or do I go back? I don't buy into that analagy. I don't think the path goes in a straight line. Everything is interconnected circles, so going in one direction can actually be going in another.
Maybe going back is going forward. We can't know until we go there.
You don't have to choose. Just act. Follow what feels right and even though you still won't know which direction you are going at least it will feel right. You will get happiness from doing good and doing good will bring you happiness. Its a un-vicious circle.
2006-06-21 15:08:24 · answer #1 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would choice family and happiness. Right now I now people with no family, alone in their old age. It is sad to see. Family makes our lives worth living. Who's to say you will not be able to have it all. Maybe your children will save the world. It would make a parent proud to have a child that found the cure for cancer and such. Your heart will guide you.
2006-06-20 14:38:21 · answer #2 · answered by doughnutlady1965 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
neither of those sound like ultimate good or ultimate happiness- living a simple life in which you help those in need and find a job that is fulfilling is the best, most realistic compromise.
2006-06-20 14:36:34 · answer #3 · answered by soul patrol baby 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's entirely possible to do good while being happy, so I'd choose the humble happy life.
2006-06-20 16:12:02 · answer #4 · answered by CF 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think ultimate happiness would come from ultimate good...I think a person who chooses ultimate good would come across others who want the same as them and they could do good together, thus attaining both
2006-06-20 14:29:48 · answer #5 · answered by Tessie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The latter. Or to compromise, to settle with only one other person, not an entire family.
2006-06-20 23:21:05 · answer #6 · answered by Source 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ultimate good, I would rather have a billion people happy then me happy and everyone else misrible mate.
2006-06-20 14:28:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋