How to make sense of your world

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As far as forms of life go, human being is a highly complex, and an intelligent one. We find ignorance simply unbearable!
“Man is a being in search of meaning”.
-Plato

We, humans, are forever trying to understand ourselves; the world and our place in it. We use many methods, for example- religion and science.

Some people achieve contentment and peace of mind via practicing either, or both.
What about the millions of others? The folk whose lives are untouched by science, and they are not the religious believers, either. How do those humans achieve a happy state- for great many of them do.

Perhaps its not so much about “a method”, but rather- “a tool”.

Religion engages both our intellects and our hearts/emotions. Science- an intellect only.
What if something happens that is too complex/unbearably painful to be expressed in words? Well, we always have music.. or you can go ahead and “paint your mood”, for art is another powerful method of human’s search for meaning.

Artist’s tool is their heart (mostly?), as well as their intellect.
And the greatest scientists? Apparently, they use both tools.

“After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well”.
-Albert Einstein

If you had to choose only one tool, which would it be?
The young and a very able human, and, at the other end of the spectrum, a very frail and disabled one- they make the same choice:

“The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains”.
– Napoleon Bonapart

“In sufferers of dementia, we have observed a pronounced effect of positive emotion on enhancing memory”.

(Emotion Processing Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease: An Overview of Behavioral Findings, Systems Neural Correlates, and Underlying Neural Biology.
Shefali Chaudhary 1, Simon Zhornitsky 1, Herta H Chao 2,3, Christopher H van Dyck 1,4,5, Chiang-Shan R Li 1,4,5,6,✉

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles…)