” I do not now feel either ashamed or dubious of the Eden ‘myth’. It has not, of course, the same kind of historicity as the NT, which are virtually contemporary documents, while Genesis is separated by we do not know how many sad exiled generations from the Fall, but certainly there was an Eden on this very unhappy earth. We all long for it, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most humane, is still soaked with a sense of ‘exile’.” – J.R.R. Tolkien in a letter to his son (Jan. 1945)
I really agree with this, it’s as if all the writing from the Greek philosophers on Eudaimonia to Bertrand Russell and the 20th centuries positivism all seek the same goal which has to be innate within u