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What does it mean to be happy?

Professor Jonathan Freedman conducted happiness surveys a few years ago. He wanted to know what people believed happiness is and whether or not they believed themselves to be happy. Freedman’s survey indicated that happiness is more in the nature of a quest than a permanent state; but he did [...]

In his book The Informed Heart, Bruno Bettleheim writes that those who best survived the Nazi concentration camps were the Jehovah's Witnesses — "best survived" meaning that they did not give in to despair, did not give up the struggle to live, and did not turn on others for self-preservation.

There can be no doubt that [...]

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at [...]