Arthur C. Brooks

He says, when you're washing the dishes, you should be thinking about washing the dishes because if you're not thinking about washing the dishes, you're not fully alive while washing the dishes and you're not...

Really alive right now, are you?

And it's true.

And so if you're taking pictures for social media or for yourself to enjoy your vacation two years from now, and you're missing it now, how ironic is that?

And that's a problem, and that's a meaning problem.

And so beauty is something you need to experience right now in real life.

And there's three kinds.

There's artistic beauty, there's natural beauty, and there's moral beauty.

That means seeing people doing beautiful things for others.

Like reading the biography of Mother Teresa, for example.

Or seeing somebody who truly is helping other people.

To see acts of heroism.

To experience something that people give of themselves.

To see people who have given their life in battle.

so that you can live the life that you actually live.

It's a beautiful thing.

And those acts of moral beauty, natural beauty, artistic beauty, that will give you a true sense of the meaning of your life.

It's a miracle.

I like watching a miracle unfold.

And it's funny because they're living now in an extraordinary way that was utterly ordinary 100 years ago.