Noble Purpose - The Joy of Living a Meaningful Life

A fine book by a professor of education at Stanford who has delved deeper than most in his search for 'noble purpose', a sense of meaning and fulfilment that comes from dedicating one's life to something beyond the narrow interests of the self. This is a surer route to happiness than direct cultivation, as the author shows, and yet our consumerist culture would have it otherwise. The final chapter outlines nine principles that can point us in the direction of noble purpose including staying humble and paying attention to the means designed to achieve the end in view. The book is enriched with many inspiring quotations on facing pages.