Category: Happiness

On Good Fortune

by williampage | | Conscious Evolution, Essays, Happiness, Self-Remembering | 14 |

The only way we can have a guarantee of good fortune is to find a way of thinking and living that transforms events that we now think of as bad fortune into events that we can consider good fortune…

Type and Other Maps of Human Individuality

by williampage | | Essays, Essence and Personality, Happiness, Relationships, Self-Remembering | 5 |

In order to understand the dynamics of human relationships it is necessary to understand to some extent the many factors that make up individuality. Human individuality can be mapped, but there is not just one map; there are many…

Ghosts, Desire, and Happiness

by williampage | | Essays, Happiness, Stories | 3 |

In his book The Theory of Eternal Life, Rodney Collin recounts a story about how native East Indians poured beer and whisky over the grave of a recently dead European planter…

The Nature of Suffering

by williampage | | Being Present, Essays, Happiness, Self-Remembering | 12 |

There is a principle at work here and it is this: when we suffer we strengthen whatever we are feeling in our inner world.

The Stoics and Contentment

by williampage | | Essays, Happiness | 3 |

I think the idea that is hardest to understand here is that dispassion or detachment is a necessary component of happiness.

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