The Dali Lama's Facebook status update for 18 July 2011
We have different degrees of happiness and different kinds of suffering. Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.Related blog posts on the quest for happiness:
Apr 11, 2011
And the short book which caught my eye is the Happiness Manifesto, by Nic Marks. I am captivated! I'm ready to announce my second career as a traveling Happiness Manifesto consultant. And by traveling, I mean via 2008 ...
May 17, 2011
A New Gauge Helps to See What's Beyond Happiness. Marty Seligman replaces "Authentic Happiness" with "Flourish," a more holistic view of well-being. “Well-being cannot exist just in your own head,” he writes. ...
Jul 10, 2011
Is QoL Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? This tripartite goal is the basis of the Declaration of Independence (and similar documents from other nations), yet it strikes me as hard to measure or score. ...
May 03, 2011
The key to happiness in life is finding balance, and in managing the conflict that arises when different beings have different ideas of pleasure and pain, of good and evil. One man's terrorist is another's freedom ...
Aug 07, 2010
For those of us interested in metrics: I've enjoyed recent conversations with many friends about indices besides the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that may offer a more holistic view of the health and happiness of a society. ...
Nov 30, 2010
What is happiness? There may be many definitions of happiness, making it hard to measure. Taking the glass half empty approach, some economists define happiness as the absence of misery. The so-called Misery Index is a new counterpoint ...
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