'Happiness' Articles
Happiness is good I suppose? Happiness is good without supposing. It’s supposing that confuses.
Happiness beyond happiness and unhappiness? Happiness has no contradictory state. It just gets confused.
Wisdom = happiness = response ability. Happiness is simple, but for a variety of reasons it’s not easy. It’s more like sobering up when the only thing to drink is alcohol. You actually have to put the whole mess down. The water is close at hand. It is if anything too available. It’s right under your nose, about a little less than midway down your chest. You can feel it beating in your veins.
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence” Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)
“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” Sidonie Gabrielle
Happiness Being
We were all at one point happy. Literally all of us have been happy at least at one point in our lives. The reason being is that happiness is a natural state of being. It isn’t an emotion. It’s not a mood that comes and goes. Moodiness comes to replace happiness when we are taught “the meaning of life”. Happiness is like what Chinese mystics call the first chi. It’s an internal force that at first is quite sound and balanced, stable and uncorrupted. When we were children we didn’t try to “be good” and “do better” and there wasn’t… Seek More
Child’s Desire
Nature can be a good parent, but nature can’t help us discover human nature very well. That’s supposed to be our human parents’ job. Nature also teaches us to respect life in general if we are receptive, and in general we were when we were happy. When we were happy there wasn’t any elsewhere or later. Elsewhere and later didn’t matter. What mattered is where we were and all the possibility there. We didn’t forever want what we didn’t have, want what we couldn’t see. Honestly even in this day and age, a child doesn’t make up things to want.… Seek More
Assertive and Happy
I saw a movie called ‘The Soldier Who Declared Peace’, and it showed that although a soldier, he did not have to fight and kill to get people to his way of being. Sun-Tzu, perhaps histories most famous military mind, said that when a conflict gets to armed confrontation it’s already failed. Sun-Tzu taught that any conflict is won before it’s even perceived in general. It is handled already in the mind of the one who might be in it. I daresay any conflict is already handled by the happy person. A happy person is assertive. Defensiveness and reactivity come… Seek More
Sober Up
Happiness is simple, but for a variety of reasons it’s not easy. It’s more like sobering up when the only thing to drink is alcohol. You actually have to put the whole mess down. How often can you actually say “I know where I am, and what I want, and exactly what I’m doing”? Isn’t not being able to get your bearings a hallmark of intoxication? Gosh, everyone’s drunk? Yes, but the water is close at hand. It is, if anything, too available. It’s right under your nose, about a little less than midway down your chest. You can feel it beating… Seek More
Food Happiness
Happiness isn’t uniform, nor is it supposed to be. I give my son spaghetti, and in the moment of eating it he will be quite happy. Give me spaghetti, and I likely will be unmoved though eating it. Give me good conversation over dinner though, and I am happy then. I’m largely unmoved by food, the exception being if it’s offered as an act of love, friendship, or support. I neither enjoy cooking or eating, but if asked I will give food and will do my best to make sure the food is as good as I can make it. I… Seek More
Be Where You Are
Happiness is so simple it’s confusing, but generally it confuses children very little. We were all at one time happy. It’s sort of a natural state, and we experience it when we aren’t worried about all the “adult” things which we are taught as children. I have met some very adult children, and I find it rather sad. These same children also tend to be a bit lost. I have actually heard a child when asked by a doctor if they wanted a sucker say “I don’t know, Mommy do I want a sucker?”. As a whole people are still like that,… Seek More
Online Addiction of Second Life
Many people complain of being addicted to the online virtual world of Second Life (SL). There is a simple reason. You don’t come here and have a second life, you come here and say, “Oh wow, what’s here, what’s this and what can I do now?” And watch bugs? You might watch bugs here. You might be a bug here. You come here and get addicted because here you can have your first life. It’s only an addiction because you tell yourself SL isn’t real, and my real life can’t be like SL, which is a half truth. You want… Seek More
