What I’m saying is that nothing but life itself is necessary for humans to know joy and happiness. I constantly had this affirmed in my work with handicapped individuals. I saw quadriplegics who smiled and laughed their way through life, while those working with them, with...
He is bored because of the answers that he has gathered from others and goes on repeating. He is bored because his eyes are so full of knowledge, he cannot see what is happening. He knows too much without knowing at all. He is not...
As you consider your potential for choosing happiness, keep in mind the word immobilization, as the indicator of negative emotions in your life. You might believe that anger, hostility, shyness and other similar feelings are worth having at times, and so you want to hang...
A wise course to aim at the maintenance of our health and the cultivation of our faculties, than at the amassing of wealth; but this must not be mistaken as meaning that we should neglect to acquire an adequate supply of the necessaries of life....
I know you're a decent, industrious, cooperative animal, comparable to a bee or an ant. All I've done is to lay bare the little man in you, who has been wrecking your life for thousands of years. You are great, little man, when you're not...
‘Regime shift in North Korea in two years.’ ‘Sour grapes for France as Argentinian wines expected to dominate.’ ‘Euro collapse likely.’ ‘Low-cost space flights by 2025.’ ‘No more crude oil in 15 years.’ Every day, experts bombard us with predictions, but how reliable are they? Until...
A cat and a fox were once discussing about hounds. The cat said, "I hate hounds. They are very nasty animals. They hunt and kill us". The fox said, "I hate hounds more than you". . The cat asked, "How do you save yourself from hounds?" The fox replied,...
There is Mount Pelion, in Greece; there is Mount Ida, in Trojan territory; and there is Mount Taygetus at Sparta. These are very high peaks - that is, places where the distance between the gods and humans is less than it is elsewhere; where the...
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can...
There are four independent brain circuits that influence our lasting well-being Richard Davidson, the neuroscientist with whom I had lunch in San Francisco, has drawn together the neuroimaging research into a unified theory of the happy brain. I was so fascinated by what he was saying...
