Fantasy, Existential Attitude, and then ...

     "A sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world" is an essential "reality check" in one's maturation to adulthood. Before we experience this 'existential attitude', we're living a fantasy, not fully aware of existential realities: constant change, aging, sickness and death.

     Thousands of years after the Buddha, Soren Kierkegaard also realized that "each individual — not society or religion — is solely responsible for giving meaning to life and living it passionately and sincerely ('authentically')."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism

     See also: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2013/02/spirituality-in-health-care-meaning.html
     and: http://www.johnlovas.com/2012/01/intention-shifts.html

 

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