Archives for the 'Happiness' Category
Three Truths to Help You Create a Life of Gratitude [Zen Habits]
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Chris Guillebeau of The Art of Nonconformity.
On a recent trip to Ohrid, Macedonia, I arrived in the middle of the night after a six-hour bus ride through Albania. It was my first time in Macedonia, so I didn’t know my way around very well. I [...]
Notes on Fatherhood [Zen Habits]
Today is Father’s Day here on Guam, and my dad is lying on my couch taking a nap. My half-siblings are all over my house playing with my six kids (they’re all around the same age), the sounds of laughter and guitar and computer games floating all over the place. My two beautiful sisters, Katrina [...]
25 Ways to Help a Fellow Human Being Today [Zen Habits]
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.†- Dalai Lama
Too often the trend in our society is for people to be separated from either other, to be cut off from the great mass of humanity, and in doing so to be dehumanized a little bit [...]
Questions and Answers on Compassion with the Dalai Lama [Zen Habits]
Editor’s note: The following is a report on a recent talk by the Dalai Lama from reader Noah Well, who generously decided to take notes and type them up to share with me and with all of you. Thank you, Noah, for sharing this with us. I thought all of you would enjoy it as [...]
A Letter to My Son, on Starting Out In Life [Zen Habits]
Dear Seth,
You’re only three years old, and at this point in your life you can’t read, much less understand what I’m going to try to tell you in this letter. But I’ve been thinking a lot about the life that you have ahead of you, about my life so far as I reflect on what [...]
Keep your soul in good shape: managing your psychological calories [eDragonu - the choice of a personal path]
You know the story of the 3 mice groups? I guess not. It’s a very interesting one and I thought it would be a very good start point for this post… So, without further ado: a group of researches in psychological behavior took 3 identical groups of mice, and put them in 3 separate cages, [...]
Training yourself for happiness [eDragonu - the choice of a personal path]
For me, happiness is one of the most mysterious yet over-hyped word in this universe. Everybody talks about happiness. It’s everywhere: in music, in movies, in art or in spiritual techniques. Some of us are taking it for granted, some of us are making a job from talking about it, and some of us are [...]
The Seven Deadly Sins of a Relationship [Zen Habits]
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” - Emily Kimbrough
While I can’t claim to be the world’s foremost expert on relationships, I do know that my wife and I have a very strong marriage, and have never been more in love.
I’ve failed at [...]
Simple Manifesto: Break Free from the Tyranny of the Clock [Zen Habits]
“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.” - Benjamin Disraeli
For tens of thousands of years, human beings didn’t have clocks. They lived, amazingly, by the sun and the moon and seasons and the needs and rhythms of their bodies.
The clock is a very very [...]
The Incredible Power of Contentment [Zen Habits]
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” - Cicero
While many readers have noted my efforts and articles on self-improvement, what I haven’t stressed as much is the beauty of becoming content with what you have and who you already are.
I’m definitely a goal-oriented person — I always have my [...]