The true subject of our life orientation.

St. Thomas Aquinas provides three indicators by which we can recognize the true object of our life's orientation:

  1. id in quo maxime delectatur:
    … that which brings me the greatest pleasure …
  2. id cui maxime intendit:
    … that to which I am most inclined …
  3. id in quo praecipue vult quilibet convivere amico:
    … that which I would most like to share with a friend …

(quoted from the notes of Father Jerome /1907–1985/, monk of the Trappist monastery in Sept-Fons)