Weekly Soul: Week 41 - Meaning & Fulfillment (Craigie)
Today's meditation from Weekly Soul: Fifty-two Meditations on Meaningful, Joyful, and Peaceful Living by Dr. Frederic Craigie: -41- The effort to bring something new and meaningful into the world – whether in the arts, the kitchen or the marketplace—is exactly what generates the sense of meaning and fulfillment for which so many of us yearn so deeply. Peter Korn In the range of 65,000 years ago, someone wandered into a network of caves in what is now Spain, finding a suitable wall surface and inscribing images of animals and geometric designs. In ever-unfolding fields of archaeology and cultural anthropology, these images presently claim title to being the oldest examples of visual arts yet discovered. They were made by Neanderthals, long before modern humans appeared on the scene, giving rise to fresh theories about the sophistication of what we have long considered to be barrel-chested, dim-witted brutes. In the following millennia, people arou...
