Charity never fails: No happiness surpasses peace of mind

No happiness surpasses peace of mind. Truly to be at peace in mind is better than to suffer. A place that where all the profound religions teach us must be overcome. A place palpable to bring higher purpose, meaning, and profundity. Meaning why would you suffer in vein. Meaning why should you suffer more than you can tolerate. And also meaning other people are also suffering. So it helps to be kind. There is a vast world and only a little you. But why? one may consider is the vast world so mean?

As Emerson writes "There is a difference between one and another hour of life, in their authority and subsequent effect. Our faith comes in moments; our voice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences. For this reason, the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely, the appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain. We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope. He must explain this hope. We grant that human life is mean; but how did we find out that it was mean? What is the ground of this uneasiness of ours; of this old discontent? What is the universal sense of want and ignorance, but the fine inuendo by which the soul makes its enormous claim?”

But not the majority of the inhabitants of the places we inhabit are practically mean. They are fastidious and focused on their own happiness. And that is becoming. More so if a shared value inhibits perceptions that are commonly good. Or for the greater good.

Our suffering exist Straight down our lineage. Our first parents suffered. Eve faced the malevolence of the subtle serpent whom subdued her to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge. The firstborn child suffered along with his brother. When Eve ate of the tree of knowledge and gave to Adam to eat this was the force of suffering that bore them to get locked out of Eden. In his descriptive and fortunate poetry Milton examines this biblical passage in depth. To inject Milton’s phrasing of this passage in a literary analysis is to seek the meaning of this passage in Genesis.

“Some other able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction, death for death. Say Heav’nly Powers, where shall we find such love, Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Mans mortal crime, and just th’ unjust to save, Dwels in all Heaven charitie so deare?”

Milton brings Christ in the third chapter of paradise lost to show us the great love he has for humanity. Showcasing the biblical aspects of a loving god. The truth of gods love is that he died not only for your or my sins but for the sins of all humanity. The good Shepard, who teaches us humility and atonement, charity and neighborly love.