You Can't Be Happy Alone – Was Aristotle Right? Aristotle believed that human happiness, or eudaimonia ("flourishing"), cannot be achieved in isolation. He argued that we are social beings by nature and that a life without meaningful relationships falls short of true fulfilment. Modern research strongly supports this view. Robert Waldinger's Harvard Study of Adult Development, which followed...
part of a long interview that can be seen here Aaron: What is the greatest obstacle blocking humanity from living from their hearts? Lee: Human beings learn largely through example. For a long time, people have looked outside themselves for those examples. Increasingly, however, many are beginning to look within. They are becoming more aware of their thoughts, feelings, bodies and inner...
Leaving for an unknown journey without any pre-cognition or information about what is going to happen. Tomorrow, Tuesday, I leave for a trip where I stay three nights in a hotel in Torquay, which is on the south coast of England. We shall travel via a hotel in Plymouth, where we will stay on Tuesday night. I previously got an impulse I should write a book or at least a long blog about the people...
One thing I really do need in life is a role model, or should I say several role models. I need to admire people and I've long given up admiring any politician because I discover they are in it for what they can get out of it. I came across a man yesterday in an ALDI store who radiated love and caring and stood out from the other so much I wanted to give him a hug but on this occasion he was...
The Frome community networking event I attended Wednesday caused me to focus on many topics, the fruits of which will appear in the coming days. For more than ten years I have kept a daily diary, now running to something like two million words. What began as a simple record of events slowly became something else: a mirror. Over time, patterns began to reveal themselves — not only in the world...
This was one of the most helpful summaries I've had for some time and helps me to balance compassion with the need not to interfere with others or try to run their lives, however good the motive. Brian Jung’s Radical View of Empaths Carl Jung took people with extreme emotional sensitivity seriously at a time when psychiatry dismissed them as unstable or delusional. He believed empaths weren’t...
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