Reading Archive (Happiness)
Aliveness and Harmony
A man is alive when he is wholehearted, true to himself, true to his own inner forces, and able to act freely according to the nature of...
The Committee of the Mind
There are many different ideas of “you” in your mind, each with its own agenda. Each of these “you's” is a...
No Better Place to Meet Yourself
Moussa Ag Assarid (MAA): I don’t know my age. I was born in the Sahara desert, with no papers. I was born in a nomadic camp of...
To Be Simply, Radically, Absolutely Still
Sometimes, in a blessed life, there arises what we call the spiritual search, the search for God, the search for Truth. There is a...
What Do I Really Need Right Now?
An essential question we might ask ourselves is, 'What do I really need right now, in this moment, to be happy?' The world offers...
Violence and Nonviolence
"What is violence? What is nonviolence?" the Dalai Lama had once asked me in one of our interviews in Dharamsala. "Very...
In Praise of Idleness
Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: 'Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.' Being a highly...
Happiness Is A Journey
We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the...
Dandelion Has My Smile
If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know...
Sitting Aboard Life's Merry-Go-Round
Welcome! Welcome to the fair! I can see, you’re already sitting on the merry-go-round! It’s great how you are driving! You...
The Positivity Ratio
Imagine you’re a water lily. It’s early dawn and your petals are closed in around your face. If you can see anything at all,...
Love Is Not An Emotion
Love, defined as micro moments of positivity resonance, may thus be the most generative and consequential of all positive emotions. By...
Three Qualities Of Holiness
True happiness is uncaused. You are happy for no reason at all. And true happiness cannot be experienced. It is not within the...
Two Drops Of Oil
A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days...
Be Nobody
Consider this: We all know that it is in those moments when we completely lose ourselves — engrossed in a good book or movie,...
Causes Of Happiness
The purpose of life is to strive for happiness. Every sentient being has the right to survive; this means having a desire for...
Love Needs to be Constantly Cleansed
In the stories that I cherished in my youth, happy endings almost always involved some kind of love, and I began to observe that in...
No Rush, No Dawdle: The Secret Of Proper Timing
The present is truly the only place we exist. What we call the past is a construct of memory, the recollection of which constitutes a...
From Transaction To Trust
The most precious and important things in life are, by definition, nontransactional. And to try to bargain for them is to immediately...
Time Confetti And The Broken Promise Of Leisure
It’s true: we have more time for leisure than we did fifty years ago. But leisure has never been less relaxing, mostly because of...