Is it good to feel good?
“Do you like music?” Dr. Robert asked.
“More than most things.”
“And what, may I ask, does Mozart’s G-Minor Quintet refer to? Does it refer to Allah? Or Tao? Or the second person of the Trinity? Or the Arman-Brahman?”
Will laughed. “Let’s hope not.”
“But that doesn’t make the experience of the G-Minor Quintet any less rewarding. Well, it’s the same with the kind of experience that you get with the moksha-medicine…”
- Aldous Huxley, Island (1962)
One thing a hippie I know says sometimes is, “It’s good to feel good.”
Is it good to feel good?
Yes, it is. Why should it be anything other than good to feel good?
Michael
April 14, 2008 at 8:52 am
What if you’re wrong?
What if you’re like Gertrude in Hamlet?
What if you’re like Montag’s wife in Fahrenheit 451?
Would it be bad to feel good? Or does this not happen in the real world?
Forest
April 15, 2008 at 8:25 am
Even synthetic happiness can be beneficial to an extent, but not always. Real happiness is always good.
nick
April 15, 2008 at 10:35 am