The Good Life
One of the chief causes of unhappiness is when society tells us one thing but our true nature dictates something else. In these instances we are, in the fullest sense of the word, dysfunctional. The important thing is to find the natural order, not just in our work, but in every area of life. Then, taking no thought for society’s myths, conform our lives to that order.
True happiness is found fulfilling our higher nature, shaping our lives and our circumstances to reflect the way we are hard-wired.
We are not only truth seekers, but truth-avoiders, when our appetites, desires and survival instincts make the truth inconvenient or threatening.
Integrity is vital because any breach of our integrity pits us against reality and that’s a war no one has ever won.
We know what is true and right, but we can not or will not do it. This is one of the greatest paradoxes of life and is crucial to understand. It fools us because its in our very nature to be blind to it. Sin.
Original sin or our fallen nature causes us to do wrong even if we know better. It can distort our vision to the point we no longer see the truth. We become vulnerable to pervasive cultural lies. Fleeing the truth hardens our hearts. We deliberately chose alienation and take evil within ourselves. When you know the truth and give yourself to a lie you can not live a good life or die a good death. Even when they know they should, people can not get by their rebellious will. They are doomed, at the very least to dysfunctional lives. Its definition: to know one thing to be true, yet doing something else. We live in denial of the truth.
Furthermore we stop resisting sin and give ourselves over to it, searing and hardening consciences, living wretched lives.
The Good Life- Colson and Fickett
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