Happy to be in the company of a phenomenal writer and lecturer such as Joseph Campbell with also my personal observation that people indeed appear to be more strongly motivated in the direction of directly sensing their aliveness, than that people are motivated to come to a rational understanding of what life is all about. And perhaps directly sensing aliveness actually even is what life is all about?
It looks to me like generally speaking everybody wants to move in the direction of more life, and therefore more experience of living. Actions that we think will lead to more experience of living, usually feel good to us. Fulfilling our needs feels good to us. Being frustrated in meeting our needs, or being frustrated in achieving what we think we need, usually feels miserable to us.
Our needs and desires can sometimes seem at odds with each-other though. Yesterday when visiting my grandmother, I really wanted to spend as much time as possible with my grandmother, yet I also wanted to still run an errand without ending up in a crazy hurry before attending an aunt's birthday party later. When I became aware of slowly building up some tension over this, because I wanted to avoid tension in my day, I couldn't help but laugh at myself.
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