HAPPINESS AND CONTEMPLATION - by Josef Pieper

 

HAPPINESS  AND  CONTEMPLATION by  Josef Pieper Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness.  If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation ?  Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness.  Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.