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10-06-2010, 09:40 PM
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How can we be happy here on Earth?
Avatar has through its representation of the paradisical world Pandora made many ponder over their own lives and the state of this world. For some this has led to a feeling of unhappiness since our lives in comparison with the Pandoran life seems rather bleak and meaningless. But still Pandora is an unobtainable fantasy. So what can we do to find happiness here on Earth instead?
Statistician Nic Marks has thought about what happiness is and how we can be happy: “he ask why we measure a nation's success by its productivity -- instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against resource use (because a happy life doesn't have to cost the earth).” Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index | Video on TED.com Also Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness have pondered over the matter of happiness: “he challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned. Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? | Video on TED.com Also executive, educator, writer and life coach Srikumar S. Rao has thought of these things: He “…says we spend most of our lives learning to be unhappy, even as we strive for happiness. At Arbejdsglaede Live! 2009, he teaches us how to break free of the "I'd be happy if ..." mental model, and embrace our hard-wired happiness.” Plug into your hard-wired happiness 1 Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness | Video on TED.com Plug into your hard-wired happiness 2 YouTube - TED Talks- Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness- Part 2/2 What is your opinion? How can we be truly happy here on Earht? 
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10-07-2010, 03:07 AM
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I believe my approach is close to the Buddhist approach. But I can't say for sure. But tomorrow I'll have more to say; I'm speaking with a Tibetan monk tomorrow!
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10-07-2010, 02:03 PM
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 Seriously, would like to know how this goes.
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10-07-2010, 08:04 PM
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 mixed the dates up. I will be talking to someone within a couple weeks. I'll keep you informed
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10-07-2010, 03:52 AM
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Happiness is not some unattainable goal. We can achieve it here on Earth.
I would divide happiness into 2 categories. The first is simply an emotional reaction to whats happening in the present moment and second one is a sense of fulfillment. A Buddhist would teach you to always live in the present moment in a constant state of bliss. This is the first form of happiness I mentioned. Its the elation you feel when you directly experience something wonderful. The second form we have to work for. I believe that each of us has purposes to fulfill in life. When we work towards that purpose we receive lasting happiness. Imagine if you teach your child about something. Simply teaching him gives you a sense of fulfillment for the rest of your life. You feel happy that you were able to help him and advance his knowledge. You will notice this second form of happiness the most when you are old and look back upon your younger days and judge whether your life contributed to the advancement of others or not. This the feeling we get from accomplishment. When we help others or surmount obstacles we obtain lasting happiness. We need to stop and smell the roses from time to time but we have to mainly work towards the advancement of others and accomplish something. Last edited by Banefull; 10-07-2010 at 04:11 AM.
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10-07-2010, 01:31 PM
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For me, happiness comes from a few things... the people here, and escapism
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10-07-2010, 05:19 PM
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The truest and happiest people in the world, are actually those whom give more if not all of their time, helping others. As strange as it sounds, which isn't really, seems the more self-absorbed we are, the less happy we are, the more we give as an expression of gratitude to helping others, the happier we are!
“And the honor and distinction of the individual consist in this, that he among all the world's multitudes should become a source of social good. Is any larger bounty conceivable than this, that an individual, looking within himself, should find that ... he has become the cause of peace and well-being, of happiness and advantage to his fellow men? No, ...there is no greater bliss, no more complete delight.”
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It was impossible not to have, It's impossible not to be, It's impossible not to still ...!  What this world really needs is more artists and environmentalists! "Its only 'here' that we lose perspective, out at the Cosmic Consciousness Level things get a lot clearer. For example, there is an actual star pattern that is traced in the shape of a Willow Tree, across the breadth of the Milky Way! And no wonder Indigenous peoples refer to the 'here after' as the Happy Hunting Grounds! Has it ever occured to anyone why the bioluminescence dots, on the Na'vi!"
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10-07-2010, 05:25 PM
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I think we get closer to happiness when we stop focusing on the bad things and start looking at the good things in life. That some people need to realize that the Earth is beautiful and that there a lot of really good people in the world.
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 "We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find." "Gandhi said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it because nobody else will. Like when someone comes into your life and half of you says: 'You're nowhere near ready'. And the other half says: 'Make her yours forever'."-Remember Me "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"-Mahatma Gandhi "It can't rain all the time"-The Crow
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10-07-2010, 07:22 PM
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 Imagine how the future would feel like without a past, or how can the eye see without the mind, or how bunnies could eat carrot without their teeth. It's all inner-connected, that's what I think.But we can be happy on Earth, only if we make our goal to achieve for good things that will make us or someone else happy. Here I just tried to make a versus to my "story" up there. 
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10-09-2010, 03:48 PM
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10-12-2010, 12:44 AM
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thats ALL im going to say on religion. Last edited by Tiberius; 10-12-2010 at 12:58 AM.
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10-12-2010, 02:50 AM
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I think having some foundation certainly helps. For some people it's religion, some people it's something else. All religions however, teach the same principles - love, kindness, compassion. I think those are what's really important. How you find those things is secondary.
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10-12-2010, 04:16 PM
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"We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find." "Gandhi said that whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it because nobody else will. Like when someone comes into your life and half of you says: 'You're nowhere near ready'. And the other half says: 'Make her yours forever'."-Remember Me "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"-Mahatma Gandhi "It can't rain all the time"-The Crow Last edited by Elyannia; 10-12-2010 at 08:52 PM.
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10-09-2010, 09:30 PM
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 The Dreamer's Manifesto Mike Malloy, a voice of reason in a world gone mad. "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." - Inception "Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." - Tyler Durden
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