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[letric]

When it comes to happiness, it is possible we are missing the point?
Awe - a feeling of wonderment is what takes us closest to the meaning
of life. Joy requires that we chase positive experiences, but awe is
everywhere: in illness as well as health, death as well as life. Seeking
joy involves struggling to control experience, but cultivating awe involves
the willingness to feel everything, good and bad. It is feeling more
completely alive than we thought possible before we were in awe.

[letric]

When it comes to happiness, it is possible we are missing the point?
Awe - a feeling of wonderment is what takes us closest to the meaning
of life. Joy requires that we chase positive experiences, but awe is
everywhere: in illness as well as health, death as well as life. Seeking
joy involves struggling to control experience, but cultivating awe involves
the willingness to feel everything, good and bad. It is feeling more
completely alive than we thought possible before we were in awe.

The best description I have been able to give of this heightened emotional
state so far is that - no matter how good or bad our brain considers whatever
is happening to be - it is feeling more completely alive than we thought more
possible before we were in awe.

[Falcon]

Does awe necessarily represent a more accurate meaning of life? I'm not so sure. Is life about awe, happiness or sadness? Or a workable mix depending on your lot in life?

The evolutionists may argue that we still have active tear ducts and glands, hairs still stand on end, we still run cold when hit with bad news. So awe is only th frontrunner because we hope to believe that life should have been about more happiness than sadness.
The theologians would argue that contentment is the meaning of life, once the 'true' pre reqs for that contentment are fulfilled.

Awe is fantastic. I remember awe when I saw humpback whales breaching for the first time, a school of hundreds of dolphins surrounding them. Awe when I saw my daughter enter the world. Awe when I stood on top of a mountain in Scotland and looked over to the Atlantic. Awe when I woke up one morning and looked to see only sand from my feet until the horizon.

Awe is nice, and it burns a hole into your history.

[letric]

Does awe necessarily represent a more accurate meaning of life? I'm not so sure. Is life about awe, happiness or sadness? Or a workable mix depending on your lot in life?

The evolutionists may argue that we still have active tear ducts and glands, hairs still stand on end, we still run cold when hit with bad news. So awe is only th frontrunner because we hope to believe that life should have been about more happiness than sadness.
The theologians would argue that contentment is the meaning of life, once the 'true' pre reqs for that contentment are fulfilled.

Awe is fantastic. I remember awe when I saw humpback whales breaching for the first time, a school of hundreds of dolphins surrounding them. Awe when I saw my daughter enter the world. Awe when I stood on top of a mountain in Scotland and looked over to the Atlantic. Awe when I woke up one morning and looked to see only sand from my feet until the horizon.

Awe is nice, and it burns a hole into your history.

Agree with your comments totally, however, who is not stunned to remember how, before Big Bang, nothing existed?Awe can make us feel strange, it is the emotion we feel when we are most in touch with the unfathomable eeriness that is the universe we live in. Now fear may drive us to avoid spending time with dying friends or relatives, but the dying process suffused with awe, which makes wakes us from languishing sleep-like state we have fallen into. Awe is linked to a feeling of total immersion in the world, and you are more likely to find it when you are immersed in something bigger than you - whether that is through nature, volunteer work or spiritual life.
Peace