Reads tagged with “happiness”

The Eternal Return: Nietzsche’s Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Key to Existential Contentment
“Owning up: to recollect, to regret, to be responsible, ultimately to forgive and love.”

A Placid Ecstasy: Walt Whitman’s Most Direct Reflection on Happiness
“What is happiness, anyhow? … so impalpable — a mere breath, an evanescent tinge…”

Meditation Teacher Sharon Salzberg on What Compassion Really Means and How We Can Train Our Attention Toward It
How a continuing sense of mutual discovery creates the opening to true compassion.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Happiness as a Moral Obligation
“It is well to fly towards the light, even where there may be some fluttering and bruising of wings against the windowpanes, is it not?”

Beloved Artist Agnes Martin on Our Greatest Obstacle to Happiness and How to Transcend It
“No-one knows what your life or life itself should be because it is in the process of being created. Life moves according to a growing consciousness of life and is completely unpredictable.”

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