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Owning your Own Shadow

   "Throughout most of history thoughtful men have taken a rather grim view of man's life on earth. The Greeks went so far as to suggest that any considerable happiness, success or achievement in a man's life might well foretell disaster. Gilbert Murray wrote: "It is a bad look-out for anyone in Greek poetry when he is called a "happy man." And the good news of the gospel was by no means good news for life on this earth. "Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward."

  
Then in the eighteenth century there emerged a spectacularly different view of man's condition. people came to believe that man's life on this earth need not be grim; on the contrary, it might be perfect if only man used his powers of reason to good effect.

   The rationalism, optimism and millennialism of the Enlightenment spread into every area of intellectual life like waves from a thrown rock. It was widely believed that man was treading an onward and upward path that would take him inevitably to the perfect society. A little more good will, rationality, science and material progress were all that were needed to speed him to Utopia.

   Though it is now easy to laugh at such naïveté, the good consequences were considerable. Much of the best that the western world has accomplished in education, in human welfare, in science and in the creation of civil institutions compatible with justice and decency was accomplished under the spell of those beliefs."

-John Gardner

Self-Renewal

   "I now saw too how my earlier discoveries could be applied to this problem of communication. For quite early in my enterprise I had found that to want results for myself, to do things with the expectancy of happiness, was generally fatal, it made the stream of delight dry up at the source. (Of course the greater part of every day was filled with jobs which had to be done in order that something else might happen; but I am not here dealing with necessities imposed from without, only with how to manage one's actions and attitudes where there is any freedom of choice.) So now I began to find that it was now way out, as I had once hoped it would be, to want results for other people. In my exasperated self-absorption I had envied those who were always doing things for others. But as I grew more observant I began to see that this by itself was no sure way to peace, for as long as you expect results from what you do there are here even more sources of exasperation. Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry that your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing. And then it was so fatally easy to think that I knew what was good for other people; it made me feel pleasantly superior to think myself in a position to help, and also it made me feel good, feel that I was piling up some subtle advantage for myself, becoming a more admirable character. It took me a long time to learn to resist the feeling that I ought to interfere and try to help people for their own good. I knew others did it and so felt I ought to, although I was never too clear about what were best to be done. And then in addition to the feeling of ought, there was also the sheer pain of another person's misery, which of course grew greater, not less, as I learned to be more perceiving.

    Gradually, however, I now came to understand that it was all right to do things for people as long as I did it for the sake of doing it, as a gesture of courtesy, the value being more in the act than in the result. If I sacrificed myself for others, it must be, not because I thought they really needed what I had to give (for this might be an insult, as if I were implicitly putting myself above them), but simply as a way of expressing my feelings towards them. Here the giving was enough in itself, it was not a means to an end."

Joanna Field

A Life  of One's Own

   "let's talk about that "inalienable right" that the Powers that Be don't want us talking about: The pursuit of happiness.

   This basic human right, proclaimed by the founders on July 4,1776, gets short shrift today. It's not taught in schools as a worthy goal in life, it's not mentioned by the mass media, it's not posed as a national objective by vote-seeking politicians, and it's deliberately discouraged by corporate bosses who constantly demand more hours from us with less pay. (As one T-shirt puts it: "Medieval Peasants Worked Less Than You Do.")

   Instead, the prevailing culture insists that you derive your "happiness" from staying hitched to the constant plow of work, thus making some money so you can buy a car, watch TV, go to Disneyland. They've perverted the language, shifting the debate from real happiness to possessions-and that is leaving a very big hole in our lives."

Jim Hightower

   "Our generation is not the first to discover the chance and tragedy of this world, but if some of these writers had their way it might be the first generation to drown in self-pity at the thought. "Of all the infirmities we have," Montaigne said, "the most savage is to despise our being."

-john Gardner

Self-Renewal

Slough of Despond

"In Slough, though, I can't avoid the facts. The viral theory of happiness never took hold. The Slough 50 may have learned a thing or two about happiness, but the message never spread very far. Does that mean the viral theory is flawed? I don't think so. It's simply a matter of numbers. Plant enough happiness seeds-people like Richard Hill and Heather White and Veronica Puglia-and eventually the laws of exponential growth kick in. A tipping point is reached, and happiness, I believe, will spread like a California brush fire."

Eric Weiner

The Geography of Bliss

"No amount of partying and drinking, pleasure and travel, fame and fortune, success and creativity, indeed no amount of genuine human love and affection, can ever fully take our loneliness away. All of these things are good in themselves and can even help somewhat to alleviate our loneliness. but God has made us bigger than human love and affection. Only a total all-encompassing consummate union with all sincere persons, the world and with the divine life itself will finally put to rest our last lonely impulse."

-Ronald Rolheiser: The Restless Heart

"We do not have solitary beings. Every creature is, in some sense, connected to and dependent on the rest."

-Lewis Thomas

"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to beg differences that we often cannot foresee."

-Marian Wright Edelman

".....poetry of many kinds...gave me great pleasure, and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in the historical plays. I have also said that formerly pictures gave me considerable and music very great, delight. but now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me. I have also lost almost any taste for pictures or music.....My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of fact, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.....The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature."

-from Autobiography of Charles Darwin

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."

-Albert Schweitzer

"Happiness makes people uneasy nowadays."

-David Hepworth

"happiness is the accumulation of Good."

-Buddha

  ".....The idea is that people who live nearby are more likely to be in contact and therefore more likely to pick up on each others' moods. geographic distance can be used as a proxy for likely frequency of social interaction. In our study, about one in three people live within a mile of their closest friend, but there is a lot of variation, and some friends live thousand of miles apart. We found that when a friend who lives less than a mile away becomes happy, it can increase the probability that you are happy by 25%. In contrast, the happiness of a friend who lives more than a mile away has no effect. Similarly, if your spouse lives with you and he or she becomes happy, then your probability of happiness goes up, but spouses who do not live together have no effect on each other. A happy sibling, who lives less than a mile away increases your chance of happiness by 14% , but more distant siblings have no significant effect. And happy next-door neighbors also increase your chance for happiness, while neighbors who live further away (even on the same block) have no significant effect.

   Happiness is thus not merely a function of individual experience or choice; it is also a property of groups of people. Changes in individual happiness can ripple through social connections and create large-scale patterns in the network, giving rise to clusters of happy and unhappy individuals. Although we cannot observe what caused happiness to spread, a variety of mechanisms are conceivable. happy people may share their good fortune (e.g., by being pragmatically helpful or financially generous to others), change their behavior towards others (e.g., by being nicer or less hostile), or merely exude an emotion that is genuinely contagious. Being surrounded by happy people might have beneficial biological effects, too. but whatever the mechanism, it seems clear that we need to change the way we think about happiness and our other emotions."

-Nicholas A. Christakis, MD. PhD. and James H. Fowler, PhD

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They shape Our Lives