Trust, Faith


A Sufi was once engaged in prayer, when his cell caught fire. He did not stop praying for one moment. Afterwards, people asked him about this. He replied: The divine fire held my attention, so I could not attend to the fire in my cell.

- Qushayri, "Risalah

The Happiness Formula

Here is a fascinating BBC site that covers topics related to happiness.

Measuring happiness

Testing happiness

Pleasure + engagement + meaning = happiness.

Searching the brain for happiness

Britain's Happiness is in decline

What is happiness?
Think yourself happy
Politics of happiness
Power of happiness
The happiness recipe
Happiness in Bhutan


If these videos do not play in your browser go direct to the BBC site and play them from there.

Staying happier for longer

The health benefits of happiness

The politics of happiness

Here's a formula:

Happiness = health + money + social life + meaning

Health = sleep + diet + exercise

Sleep = schedule + technique

Sleep Technique = consistent bedtime and waking time + no reading or TV in bed + no booze or caffeine…

And so on.

You develop your own means of achieving that formula.

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