Philosophy of Happiness in Life

Life can have a number of meanings and philosophical meaning is just one of them. I recently found a good answer to this question on Yahoo Answers. It was not only about the philosophical meaning of life but also covered this meaning in other terms like, temporal success and survival, its meaning in terms of wisdom and knowledge, ethical, religious, spiritual and other ways. I liked the best answer so much that I'm publishing it here, if you wish to see the original page then visit the links at the bottom. Meaning of Life The philosophical question "What is the meaning of life?" means different things to different people. The vagueness of the query is inherent in the word "meaning", which opens the question to many interpretations, such as: "What is the origin of life?", "What is the nature of life (and of the universe in which we live)?", "What is the significance of life?", "What is valuable in life?", and "...

Intentions Can Provide Honest Justification Intentions can be used to justify an action, a good intention will definitely deserve reward if the action and its reaction was pleasing or it can also be used to review a punishment which resulted from any action backed by a positive intention. When there is no clue we can try to look at the intention. Intention seems to be more important then the action and its results. Love is not an action its an intention, a feeling, an honest example of love is a relationship between a mother and a child. A mother can be a good mother or poor mother in her duties towards child depending upon her eduction, background and several other factors but we cannot doubt the intentions of a mother. If she is healthy (physically/mentally) she will definitely work for the welfare of her child and any decision related to her child is backed by this intention. What Is Intention An intention can be defined as a real hidden agenda, something which...

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Life is a process, a series of activities, an ongoing process and like any other process, life too produces a number of intermediary results one after the other in many time frames. Results pertaining to shorter time span processes do not actually play any major in our life, they only give a hue, an effect to that time frame. These flavors, taste for the time beings are often called ups and downs of life. The taste or result that we see is actually related to our expectations with those events and there resulting consequences which are often similar to a 404-Error Page i.e. Page Not Found or Expectations are not met. The results that we get or the trend formation we see is immediately compared with what we expect, something we already have on our mind (an arbitrary image is already there) and if there is a difference (results are better then our expectation or worse because we never get a 100% exact result in anything otherwise that event will loose its importance because of our no p...

If we are happy, we'll contribute happiness to the society, if we are distressed we'll surely inflict others in one way or other. Happiness is a social virtue, it is not an isolated state of mind which only surrounds an individual. Some of us often think that happiness can sometimes act selfishly, which I think and feel isn't right. We cannot enjoy a real happiness, a long lasting pleasure in our life if everything is not well around us. This state of mind can't be reached by fooling others, snatching there rights, bunking our duties. A society which tends to be happy with whatever resources it has will definitely have a large number of individual enjoying happiness. It doesn't means that they do not have problems or they get satisfactory results from everything they do. It only means that these common problems of life do not interfere with the quality of life they can have. Happiness is A Social Virtue We cannot drive happiness by making others unhappy. It is no...

Do you think honesty is related to success and happiness in life. Understanding a simple principle can lead to more comfortable life. Our environment today is more polluted then it was a year ago, our food chain is more vulnerable today then it was some time back. Today we are not actually enjoying life but we are only surviving, the physical environment is actually getting more and more polluted day by day which can be measured by our modern instruments but what about our mental environment our growing negative tendency, which has also deviated towards negative zone. We cannot lead a calm life, a peaceful life because it is counter productive, our modern lifestyle has turned each one of us to defensive mentality. We have to think before anything we do because nothing is natural, close to reality, water which was earlier a sign of life, a gift of nature is now a sign of pollutant illness and disease, we will not like to drink water directly from a natural source before processing or ...

Philosophy of SEO on Internet Honesty is a word which can be used and abused for a number of reasons, to be honest this word is often misused on internet as a powerful keyword. A word which has accumulated lot of energy which can emotionally drag anyone to the contents where it is used on top, in headlines. On internet words do not have any meaning attached to them, they are only a series of letters which have certain value (attached to them) like cheap, honest, best etc. These words are used as a supporting material which can help a marketing campaign succeed. Words are used as if they are lifeless objects which do not actually convey a meaning, an intention they are mere collection of characters which have different emotional value in the market. We can use any word (without looking at its meaning and whether we actually mean what it conveys) anywhere to get the desired results. We can use the word ' honest ' to add an element of authenticity. The words are not actually...

Internet and Its Philosophy It feels great to be online, share views and visions of people across the globe, learn about the local issues and how they are impacting global issues. An electronic society which is not backed by humanoids or robots but real human beings like you and me. We may not know each other but we are familiar with one another. We have something in common, even though we live apart may have vast differences in our economic and social background, internet is a platform which brings us together to share and care for our vision, our views. A unique philosophy of internet . Internet or web is today a society , it's not a tool or a technology but its an integral part of  modern life, more and more people are getting accustomed to this new form of society, an online society. There are many benefits of being a part of this society but this is also threatening a number of traditional and modern social structures. Online Society is Unnatural Society Man is a social...

Internet is a formless object, a virtual world with a number of concurrent philosophies surviving on it. Its impacting our society in more then one way which is giving birth to a new philosophy ' A Philosophy of Internet '.  Today internet is a necessity tomorrow it can be a vital part of society, as it will be a home to a number of societies which will have no real existence in real world. Internet or web can have a number of definitions. Its a technological innovation, its a communication technology, its a workplace, a place of entertainment, a place to relax, a place to find solutions, a place where community interacts, a place of research, a place to flirt, a place to earn living . Internet today is a complex place, it has many followers most of them are internet addicts who cannot leave even a day or hour without it. Internet is a convenient medium to fulfill our desires, its a virtual reality with connections to real world. We can be happy or sad with what we see, rea...

Positive thinking can be improved with hypnosis or in other words we can say we learn hypnosis with positive thinking . Hypnosis is an art to develop power of our thoughts to such an extent that they start influencing our life and its surroundings directly. I don't think of hypnosis as a black art, something which is anti-social because it is not. It is an art of calming our thoughts to such an extent that thoughts cease to exist and when a person is able to calm his/her thoughts to this level he/she can easily concentrate on a single object, a single thought. Hypnosis, positive thinking and philosophy can lead more happiness in our life , we can achieve more with our limited resources with a calm mind. Our life isn't a mission, a company to get more market share and profits, a machine to get more output, life is easy and cool and every body has a right to survive . This is not just a positive view of life, a philosophy but the real meaning of life. If we can understand a...

Philosophy is a logical interpretation of moral values . It is an interconnection of moral and logic, combining moral values with logic or we can say that philosophy is a logical conclusion of moral values. Philosophy without moral is a vehicle without engine to drive, logic behind the philosophy is the fuel which drives it in motion. In today's environment where moral value and philosophy is looked down as being old fashioned, unscientific theories which do not have any place in today's fast paced societies. This is what most of us who lead a busy life in modern comfortable world think, the actual people who form this society at large. In this article 'Logical Philosophy of Moral Values' I'm not talking to libraries, universities, students of philosophy and a few intellectuals who already know more than what I ever think of knowing, for them philosophy is still a contemporary subject of there lives, they live with this philosophy as a subject and object, but ...

Everything that happens in our life plays an important role in shaping our future and present. Difficulties and problems too have a positive as well as negative aspect on our life . They also act as a calibrating tool, a rating system of our life. Big players face bigger problems and small players face small problem but each one of them sees and treats them in somewhat similar fashion. Every difficult situation or problem that we solve or cross successfully increases our individual ranking in life and adds to our list of achievements in life besides boosting our confidence level and morale to tackle such situation in future. DIFFICULTIES AND PROBLEMS ARE NOT FORCED BUT NATURAL Life is a continuous process, a journey. The moment we cease to move with life is the moment life ceases to exist. Look at non-living objects, life less things around us, they don't react to anything, they are not perturbed with changing environment, degrading situations because life isn't supported wi...

Is happiness a decision , something that we have to decide or is it just pure fate. Is this something that we have to decide i.e., whether we want to accept our present situation and circumstances as they are without doing anything or even looking for a solution or we accept each one of them and decide to work on them and then start working on some solution. Anything that happens or will happen depends on our current decisions to some extent. If we are serious with our life then we can make some changes now and then whenever we feel something is not going right. This can be applied to every sphere of our life whether its our personal life, home, family, job, career, studies, business. A positive decision always brings a positive result which means an everlasting happiness . We all know what is good or bad for us, we read, we watch, we hear and we learn more ways, better options which can be included in our life, to add a new dimension to our life, to further improve quality of...

Honesty Is Our Natural Choice   The truth needs so little rehearsal.  ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams Honesty is a natural choice, its natural to be honest. We love to be honest and praise those who love honesty. Even today nothing has changed when it comes to natural human choice, we try to suppress this natural inclination by giving a number of justification to our own self and to those who ask us why? Today when nature is distancing itself from us, we have a number of issues with nature such as global warming, protection from Sunshine (we have teared the Natural Protecting System called Ozone), endangered species, pollution in air, water and food. Along with these we have also polluted or natural thinking process, we no more believe in nature the way we used to, today we love (or pretend to love) artificial, processed, covered things, whether its new, views, water, food or even air. We can't drink untreated water as we fear pollutants, so is the case with other th...

Every form of life on this planet is meaningful . Even if we don't consider ourselves as an important part of this planet/universe, the environment that we live in, that supports our lives, this fact (whether we are important part or not) remains unperturbed. Whether we consider ourselves to be very important or not important at all, things remain as they are. Just like an ocean filled with water, which is nothing but drops of water containing other minerals. Each drop of water in the ocean has some role to play and they are playing there role in there community called ocean. Each of them has characteristic similar to the ocean or we can say that ocean has characteristic similar to each drop of water it contains. If there is no water there is no ocean, and if there are no drops, there is no water. Meaning of Life Meaning of life for each one of us depends on the role we play in our life, in our family, in our society, at work. Even if we are not aware of our role we are still ...

Happiness seems to be an art of living . It is available to those who seek it. Today we have all forms of comforts available at our disposal but we are not able to enjoy them, earlier before renaissance i.e. industrialization things were quiet simple to understand and follow, now a days things have become very complicated. Today we have good beds but we are not always able to enjoy sleep (a part of our society is today suffering from sleeping disorder). Today we have enough food but we don't find it appetizing. We have 24 hours in a day but we can't find even half an our to relax, to enjoy freedom. Why has this happened, why are we unable to enjoy the way nature and wild animal, insects, plants and flowers enjoy life. Philosophy of happiness seems to be independent of external factors , happiness is not dependent on resources or comforts in life, its beyond these factors. You can read more on happiness in previous posts philosophy of happiness , where can we find happiness ,

In Search of Happiness How do we find happiness and where? There is no definite place where one can find happiness. There is no single abode for happiness either its available to everyone everywhere or for someone it is nowhere. Its strange but its true. Anyway, we are not supposed to consider negative things here as this is not the right place for such discussions. Negative things leads to negative realizations in life and positive things to positive realization. We can think of this world as good or bad (although both are true) but in reality what we get is what we sought. There are so many ways to find happiness . A child can find happiness in a dress, a terrorist can find happiness in explosives and explosions. So, it is you who decides where can you find similarity between happiness and an activity (or happiness without any activity). I will like to list some common places and instances of happiness in our day to day life. A happiness that frequently strikes our vision, the m...