... for all. Instead, we helped to create near equality for women within a system of ever greater class inequality. A new kind of movement is clearly needed to re-energize our struggles for equality and for a society that values the happiness of all over the power or profits of a few. I was inspired...

... as the economics of happiness. This is because it replaces our dependence on distant bureaucracies and corporations with human-scale interdependence. This is the structural path to rebuilding community, a key ingredient in happiness. Almost universally, research confirms that feeling connected to others...

...Rami Shapiro Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 Rami Shapiro on Making Happiness Our Compass We hold these truths to he self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among...

...Robert Thurman Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2008 YEARS LATE i Happy Birthday Israel by Robert Thurman a i l...

...Margie Jacobs Awakening Joy: Ten Steps that will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness , by Baraz James Alexander Shoshana , Bantam Books , 2010 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 CULTURE collection...

...Trond Viken/Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs What would it be like if global financial institutions followed Bhutan’s lead in prioritizing Gross National Happiness? Here, Bhutan’s prime minister meets with Norway’s minister of international development to discuss efforts to increase happiness...

.... On the subject of happiness, Bloch has much to say, perhaps because, given the realistic territory within which her poetry operates, “happiness” isn’t quite so simple as it seems. Particularly admirable is her voice — honest and intimate in its formal familiarity. In “Primer,” Bloch questions, with her typically...

... is different. W ith 2012 ju st one deed th a t we end up jealous quantum leap year away, we hum ans th at someone else’s happiness m ight finally be ready for a quantum might be bigger than our own. leap of our own. The message is coming Freud called this “happiness in loud...

... science unmitigated by a spiritual world view may disre­ we speak of “inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of gard (what our Founding Fathers characterized as) the happiness.” “self-evident” values essential to human freedom and dignity, and Utilizing the discoveries...

... priate. But what is enough, and how do we know the difference between financial planning planning financial happiness? between difference abstract the and know we do how and isenough, what But ispriate. appro­ anxiety of that much and money, enough having about anxious...

... around me. Happy birthday? Oh, please. My last happy was that first one with a party—gooey brown cake and four beautiful candles. And they’re singing to me! Even now it seems worth having lost one of my not enough years. I love being sung to. And how not love that song? Especially “…to you...

...john a. powell The Machinery of Whiteness , by Martinot Steve , Temple University Press , 2010 Categorically Unequal , by Massey Douglas S. , Russell Sage Foundation Publications , 2007 The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World , by the Lama Dalai Cutler...

... grace, they fall and fail. The view of illness as punishment is reinforced within a culture that regards health and happiness as the inevitable outcomes of an optimistic frame of mind. Faith is packaged as a promise to overcome human limitation altogether and becomes, as it were, a magic carpet...

... and development that fly in the face of much of Western psy­ chology. Here I will focus on two of these: that people are primarily self-interested and that the acquisition of material wealth is the key to happiness. If these “insights” prove false or seriously incomplete, then capitalism unravels...

.... Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We be­ lieve he is like us. But like all branded prod­ ucts spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, this product is duping us into doing and supporting a lot...

..., and it is your task to remind them it can be so if they stand with you and insist upon this. And I for one will be happy to come speak in your community once you have a group of people capable of organizing an evening or a Sunday gathering at which we can spread this message more fully. And how do we intend...

...—breathtak- terized by engagement with life, meeting heavy-handed. Not so the efforts in Wait. inglyso: its ups and downs w ith authenticity and The venality and crassness of contempo­ perspective.” Truly happy people have...