Tag: happiness
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Building a Movement for Happiness
Vermont and Bhutan have embraced happiness rather than GDP as a measure of social success. The world’s happiest countries share surprising characteristics – a small gap between rich and poor; work-life balance; urban design favoring community over cars; high degrees of interpersonal trust; a strong social safety net, and the…
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Greater Means Yet Less Meaning
Aristotle, in his Nichomachean Ethics, examines eudaimonia (happiness or flourishing) as the end or purpose of human life. He does this at first through a series of negatives: Happiness is not… Pursuit of Pleasure because even animals can experience pleasure and we are looking for what is the end of…
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Fleeing from the Real World
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED Bill Watterson Creator of Calvin & Hobbes Commencement Speech to the Graduating Class of 1990 at Kenyon College I have a recurring dream about Kenyon. In it, I’m walking to the post office on the way to…
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▶ Happiness in life – YouTube
Ajahn Brahm giving a Dharma talk in Bangkok. Related articles Just two small bricks (keithwaynebrown.com) Liberation Through Non-Clinging (keithwaynebrown.com) Whatever, Etc. 0026: Become Your Breathing (keithwaynebrown.com) Alan Watts on Waking Up (keithwaynebrown.com)
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Socrates was Right – Part 2
And so was the laughing Buddha! A piece from the Atlantic sent to me by my good brother Griffen R. This is a companion piece to two other reblogs: Obviously it expands on the shorter Economist article I reblogged early this morning. But it is wrtten by Emily Esfahan Smith who…
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Turn a life around
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” — Leo Buscaglia Source: pbcstyle.blogspot.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest
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Mindfulness or Fearfulness
“Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.” -William Shakespeare There is a great deal of viciousness & dis-ease in the United States of America: poverty; mental disorders; drug addiction; bigotry; compulsive obsessive consumption of sex, violence, food, celebrity, television, etc etc etc. But above all, there is a pervasive FEARFULNESS…
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ARE YOU A POST MATERIALIST? | ellisnelson
Top notch overview of this concept over at ellisnelson.com. Kudos! …Ronald Inglehart developed the idea of post materialism in the 1970s as a sociological theory to explain an ongoing transformation of individual values within a society. He argued that as western nations achieved a level of economic prosperity and physical security,…
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Lose Weight « Give me 5 minutes a day and I’ll give you a happier, more successful life!
As someone who always struggled with weight issues, I find this a very helpful overview of getting the head into a space that the body will not only follow but enjoy being there. I suppose we all agree that in order to lose weight we need to eat less and…
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Glenn Greenwald Leaves Salon for the Guardian | The Wrap Media
Good luck at the Guardian Glenn. I look forward to seeing the great things you will do there. Keep the faith and stick to your guns! Indeed, the former New York prosecutor has led multiple charges with his stories, most recently with his full-throated defenses of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Pfc.…
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The ‘Busy’ Trap – NYTimes.com
I have spoken a lot to folks over the years about how AKEDIA or Sloth is not “mere laziness” but “spiritual/mindful laziness.” This manifests in two ways: Either as allowing yourself to just sit around in a dulled idle doing nothing attend to the world & focus your situation in order…
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My Happiness Waits for Nothing and No One (What is YOUR happiness waiting for?)
My Happiness Waits for Nothing and No One (What is YOUR happiness waiting for?). A good post by a fellow Blogger which discloses one of Aristotle’s conditions for EUDAEMONIA (holistic flourishing or “happiness”): self-sufficiency. Happiness as the Target of human life cannot be something given to you by others, e.g.…
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