Happiness

In the mailbox this morning: Happiness has been co-opted by the world of material dualism.

“Living, as we do, in the Age of the Machine, it seems slightly suspect even to ask, ‘What is being?’ The very question suggests a woolly-minded lack of seriousness. Whereas doing is visible and quantifiable and generates useful, real-word results, being concerns itself with things that cannot be seen. To be is to create and sustain relationships with the invisible and the intangible . . .” – William H.Thomas, M.D., What Are Old People For?: How Elders Will Save the World. Vanderwyk & Burnham; 1st edition, 2004. See also; https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/the-miracle-of-the-ordinary/