want; so what we want to get at is: What is the basis of an enjoyable life?

I have no hesitation in saying that the secret of enjoying life is to take an interest in it. The opposite of Livingness is Deadness --- that is, inertia and stagnation. Dying of "ennui" is a very real thing indeed, and if we would not die of this malady, we must have an interest in life that will always keep going on.

Now for anything to interest us, we must enter into the spirit of it. If we do not enter into the spirit of a game, it does not interest us; if we do not enter into the spirit of a book, it does not interest us and we are bored to death with it; and so on with everything. So from our own experience we may lay down the maxim that "To enjoy anything, we must enter into the spirit of it"; and if this be so, then to enjoy the "Living Quality of Life", we must enter into the Spirit of Life itself.

I say the "Living Quality of Life" so as to dissociate it from all ideas of particular conditions; because what we are trying to get at is the fundamental principle of Life which creates conditions, and not the reflex of sensations, whether physical or mental, which any particular set of conditions may induce in us for