Reads tagged with “happiness”
Delight as a Daily Practice: A Poetic Illustrated Meditation on the Meaning of Happiness and Its Quiet Everyday Sources
A lovely countercultural invitation to savor the unpurchasable joys with which the world is strewn.
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.”
What Makes a Good Life: Revelatory Learnings from Harvard’s 75-Year Study of Human Happiness
“The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.”
Gardening and the Secret of Happiness
“It came to me while picking beans, the secret of 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.
The Remarkable Love Letters of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger
“Why is love rich beyond all other possible human experiences and a sweet burden to those seized in its grasp? Because we become what we love and yet remain ourselves.”
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