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Title: The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussi
Post by: Hazumu on February 01, 2009, 01:44:47 AM
Post by: Hazumu on February 01, 2009, 01:44:47 AM
The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing
By Frances Moore Lappe, YES! Magazine. Posted January 31, 2009.
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By Frances Moore Lappe, YES! Magazine. Posted January 31, 2009.
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QuoteHaving our basic physical needs met isn't enough. Though they're important, neither are family and friends.
"What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome."
So wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in 1895.
I'm guessing that many of you would feel uncomfortable embracing this definition of happiness, especially coming from one of history's most famous curmudgeons. If so, maybe in part it's because too often we've nodded in agreement with Lord Acton's catchy caveat, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." And who would want to risk corruption?