Ecclesiastes 8:15 · World English Bible
Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
After chasing meaning through every scheme and finding it slip away, the seeker turns back to something plain. Eat.
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EGO & BEING
After chasing meaning through every scheme and finding it slip away, the seeker turns back to something plain. Eat. Drink. Be glad. The simple joys that live entirely in the present, asking nothing of tomorrow, are the one thing that stays with a person through his days.
This turn is not surrender to shallow pleasure. The tired mind is discovering that the fullness it hunted in the future was quietly waiting in the ordinary present all along. The bread, the cup, the small gladness come as gift and not as conquest. A person who can taste this hour instead of racing past it has found the rest that all the grand striving could never reach.
Ego v. Being lens
What simple good thing is already here that you keep walking past?
When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep. The simple thing in front of you is not a lesser path, it is the whole of it.
A good life is plain food, ordinary work and the place you already live, enjoyed without wanting elsewhere.
Who is rich? The one glad with what they have. Gladness is not what arrives after the getting, it is what makes having into enough.
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Ego v. Being