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What’s Enough to Make Us Happy? by James Heskett


Experts say happiness is often derived by a combination of good health, financial wellbeing, and solid relationships with family and … More

Happiness, How to be happy, Relationships, Wealth

Osho on Love


Love, Osho on Love, Quotations, Quotes

Rollo May on Love


There are four kinds of love in Western tradition. One is sex, or what we call lust, libido. The second … More

Agape, Caritas, Eros, Love, Philia, Rollo May on Love

My Brother-in-Law’s Perspicacious Observation and the Purusharthas


When in January 1995 at the age of 30 years I came back to India from the US, I was … More

artha, Dharma, kama, Moksha, Purusharthas, Svadharma

How Does Poetry Help?


The useless poem-product unmasks our dependency on commodity goods, on the commodification of our lives and ourselves, and momentarily blunts … More

Art, Poetry, Usefulness of Poetry, Utility of Poetry

To a Slower Life by Alan P. Lightman


Not long ago, I was sitting at my desk at home and suddenly had the horrifying realization that I no … More

Being busy, Leisure, Life, Slower Life, Thoureau, Walden Pond

Does meditation make people more moral?


Zooming out, what the empirical research shows is that meditation – in its different forms – may have some positive … More

Ethics, Meditation, Morality, Morals, Positive Effects of Meditation, Side Effects of Meditation

A Different Perspective on Happiness


by Hugh Mackay in his book “The Good Life” I actually attack the concept of happiness. The idea that—I don’t … More

Fulfillment, Happiness, Pursuit of happiness, Wholeness

Lunatics & Philosophers


Lunatics, Philosophers

UCLA Loneliness Scale


In 1978, a 20-item scale was created to measure one’s subjective feelings of loneliness and social isolation – the so-called … More

Loneliness, Loneliness Scale, UCLA Loneliness Scale

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