Purposive Drift

A decent life

In my manifesto,"Purposive Drift: making it up as we go along", I talked about our sense of well-being being a better compass point to orientate our lives than external goals. So reading Humberto Maturana's words that I was enthusing about in my last post, I was delighted to find this bit:

"I think our fundamental resource is the biological background from which we human beings obtain the fundamental elements not only for creativity, but for the possibility of living a decent life. By a decent life I mean something we would recommend because it is accessible to everybody else around us. A decent life has to do with material, intellectual, aesthetic and spiritual well being. And well being means not a cage; but a possibility for reflection and for movement."