Sehwān There is an essay about this topic, and Dostoevsky its prophet: “For we are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God’s will on earth.’ All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.”
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The God of Happiness.
07-Jan-13Obvious, but still true. Up here I believe my spectrum of emotions is pre-modern, i.e. there is sadness, and there is grief, and there is loneliness, and there is regret, and there is pain, but not quite anything that could be called depression – there’s no such thing in the woods. You are penalized too […]
Why We Simplify.
01-Jan-11“To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray — these are the things that make men happy; they have always had the power of doing these, they never will have the power to do more. The […]
Happiness.
15-Dec-09I remember reading of Goethe, a man so blessed that some have said he lived the fullest human life ever, that he said that in all his life he never had forty consecutive happy days. Senior year of college, after turning in my thesis, I put myself to this challenge, and had twenty-five consecutive happy […]
Apologia Pro Carolo Gustavo Jung.
08-Jan-13buy Quetiapine with a mastercard There are some rules in the intellectual world which are pretty reliable for detecting bloviating stupidity, or blathering solipsism (or however you want to render b.s.), and one of them is this: if someone launches a five-thousand word attack on a noted author, and almost never quotes a line from the voluminous works of that […]