Saturday, 31 January 2009

The meaning of life

This is from Pope Benedict XVI's message for World Communications Day.
Life is not just a succession of events or experiences: it is a search for the true, the good and the beautiful.

Now wouldn't that be good on the side of a London bus!

The full passage:
Life is not just a succession of events or experiences: it is a search for the true, the good and the beautiful. It is to this end that we make our choices; it is for this that we exercise our freedom; it is in this – in truth, in goodness, and in beauty – that we find happiness and joy. We must not allow ourselves to be deceived by those who see us merely as consumers in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.

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