Metadata
- Author: Joseph Keegin
- Full Title:: A Life of Splendid Uselessness Is a Life Well Lived
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Life Principles And Long Standing Challenges,
- URL:: https://psyche.co/ideas/a-life-of-splendid-uselessness-is-a-life-well-lived?utm_source=rss-feed
- Finished date:: 2023-10-11
Highlights
truly splendid uselessness nourishes and elevates us spiritually, rather than simply providing a rush of mental or bodily pleasure (View Highlight)
But this kind of useless activity is not solipsistic. While rewarding each of us internally, splendid uselessness enriches the world beyond us. Like the fertile soil of a well-kept garden, a life of splendid uselessness provides abundance far beyond one’s immediate aims. The pursuit of good and beautiful things for their own sake tends to overflow, to bring more goodness and beauty into being: one good poem can spark a dozen others, a great one a thousand. (View Highlight)