1) If you think you need to examine your ideas on spirituality, and you're not doing it when you have an opportunity, you're using something as an excuse. Does it really matter what? For me, what's important is that I recognize I've been avoiding something, and correct it. I have never found it constructive to examine causes for avoidance if I can correct the avoidance itself.
2) Acknowledging feeling good, and that it is a positive value, fits the purely denotative meaning of "hedonism." Most people associate that word with Cyrenaic hedonism and write it off as shallow pleasure-seeking, but Epicurean hedonism followed to logical conclusion looks much like monastic asceticism. You probably mean something like the core value of hedonism, that "feeling good" is what defines Good, where "feeling good" is a concept left to the individual to develop and refine.
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Date: 2009-10-29 03:35 pm (UTC)2) Acknowledging feeling good, and that it is a positive value, fits the purely denotative meaning of "hedonism." Most people associate that word with Cyrenaic hedonism and write it off as shallow pleasure-seeking, but Epicurean hedonism followed to logical conclusion looks much like monastic asceticism. You probably mean something like the core value of hedonism, that "feeling good" is what defines Good, where "feeling good" is a concept left to the individual to develop and refine.