One day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. Aristotle
Multum in parvo
Much in little. Simple things. The atom, the ant, the huge reserves within the small. I was recently in Wales. Land of valleys, hills, mountains and spectacular scenery. The reminders are quite exceptional there. Reminders of what the real world is like. We urbane sophisticates, statistically urbanites now make up the majority of the world’s [...]
Belief and intelligence
Here’s the strange thing about belief. What you believe in can be anything. It doesn’t have to make sense, it doesn’t need an externally verifiable point of reference, it doesn’t need to be based in anyone else’s reality at all. This, like so much in the human experience, is a dichotomy. It allows great freedom [...]
Stop Press: Happiness in simple things
As I sit here tapping away on a laptop in the summerhouse looking out into the garden, these simple pleasures bring happiness in multiples. I watch the birds feeding. The starlings love the fat balls and bicker on the branches in the trees where they are hung. The sparrows bluster endlessly on the feeders. The [...]
Things I get happiness from
Albert Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. The things I get happiness from. Occasionally I will trawl through who and what I am and will perform one of the life ceremonies that I consider [...]
It is not a box it is a continuum
Conversation with someone yesterday and a perception about cognizance popped in. It is easy to view life as a series of boxes. Events, episodes, happenings and so on can be regarded as isolated incidents. I would read that as an effort to try and manage the unmanageable. The reality is that life, or our cognizance [...]
Where does this stuff come from?
Yet again I am humbled by the generosity of your comments. Someone asked where I sourced my information. Here’s some narrative, have you noticed how we all enjoy a good story… The education I received at school left me wanting more than it provided, my appetite for learning was not satiated by what I considered [...]