The German psychologist Karl Buehler has coined the very apt phrase "The delight of function" to suggest the joy that activity can bring with it.
I believe a human being is fully himself only when he expresses himself, when he makes use of the powers within him. If he cannot do that, if his life consists only of possessing and using rather than being, then he degenerates; he becomes a thing; his life becomes pointless. It becomes a form of suffering.
Erich Fromm, For The Love of Life
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