Our Greatest Obstacle to Happiness and How to Transcend It

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June 6, 2017 a project of ServiceSpace If you want life on your side or to be on the side of life against death you must surrender completely to life. - Agnes Martin - Our Greatest Obstacle to Happiness and How to Transcend It Maria Popova of Brain Pickings points out that "perhaps the greatest paradox of human life is that although happiness is the most universal of our longings, it is unobtainable by striving. The more ferociously we try to attain it, the more it eludes us." Join Artist Agnes Martin as she examines this paradox. { read more } Be The Change Martin says "What we really want to do is serve happiness." Why not experiment with finding satisfaction by doing something for someone else today that might make them happy. It is often in giving that we receive. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Disease of Being Busy Children Who Shine From Within Our Shortened Attention Span & 3 Ways To Stay Focused A Yuletide Gift of Kindness The Top 10 Happiest Countries 5 Things Science Says Will Make You Happier Ten Ways to Set A Positive Tone For the New Year 7 Lessons About Finding the Work You Were Meant to Do DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 243,725 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More