Inner being
"Eros pushes toward self-fulfillment, but it is not at all the egocentric assertion of one’s subjective whims and wishes on a passive world. The idea of “mastering” nature or reality would have horrified the Greeks and would promptly have been labelled hubris, or inordinate pride which is an affront to the gods and a sure invitation for a man’s doom. The Greeks always showed a respect which amounted to a reverence for the objective, given world. They delighted in their world—its beauty, its form, its endless challenges to their curiosity, its mysteries to be explored; and they were everlastingly attracted by this world. [...] Their tragic view itself enabled them to delight in life. You can’t outwit death anyway by “progress” or accumulating wealth; so why not accept your fate, choose values which are authentic, and let yourself delight and believe in the being you are and the Being you are part of?" (May, 2007, p. 71).
May, R. (2007) Love and will. W.W. Norton & Company: London.