Reduce Suffering To Live More Happily
Lifehack #2 of 7
Suffering Is Implicit In This World
Unfortunately, if you will. Kids do not know. And it only dawns slowly on younger folks.
Suffering Is Implicit In This World
The human condition requires people to bother, to compete and cooperate to sustain life and the next generation.
Life Is Not A Slam-Dunk
For no one, no matter their status. Many, many have it worse than you.
Life Is Not A Slam-Dunk
Even the powerful and wealthy have nightmares of losing it all. Many need to keep themselves going with substitutes of love.
Life Is Not A Slam-Dunk
Driven by instinct and desires, humans seek happiness by consuming and glossing over their pains.
Neither Is Life A Child's Play
Aiming squarely at one's happiness and making it the ultimate goal is a common mistake.
Neither Is Life A Child's Play
The modernist society of this age alienates more than it allows for natural happiness.
Happiness Is The Absense Of Suffering In The First Place
Says Arthur Schopenhauer, a famous German philosopher of the 19th Century.
A Well-Lived Life Faces The Roots Of Suffering
And to live well is to moralize little and love much.
A Well-Lived Life Faces The Roots Of Suffering
'Confront and remove the roots of suffering,' says Schopenhauer.
Living And Loving For The Sake Of Others
There really is no cause for extreme self-sacrifice or glorious individualism.
Living And Loving For The Sake Of Others
Noticing one's own suffering and that of all others is what makes for compassion.
Living And Loving For The Sake Of Others
Addressing one's own and the common suffering together is feasible and worthwhile.
Living And Loving For The Sake Of Others
Happiness might surely follow.