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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pessimist" data-source="post: 24312912" data-attributes="member: 566496">Read this carefully. This “happiness” has nothing to do with the common use of that word to denote an ephemeral, passing mood —happy today or unhappy tomorrow due to some temporary external condition like praise or blame, gain or loss.Rather, it refers to the deep, abiding happiness that comes from living life in full harmony with the natural world,with our communities and fellow beings, and with our culture and spiritual heritage, — in short from feeling totallyconnected with our world.and yet our modern world, and particularly its economic system, promotes precisely the reverse — a profoundsense of alienation from the natural world and from each other. Cherishing self-interest and material gain, wedestroy nature, degrade our natural and cultural heritage, disrespect indigenous knowledge, overwork, getstressed out, and no longer have time to enjoy each other’s company, let alone to contemplate and meditate onlife’s deeper meaning. Myriad scholarly studies now show that massive gains in GDP and income have not madeus happier. On the contrary, respected economists have demonstrated empirically that deep social networks area far better predictor of satisfaction and wellbeing than income and material gain.<a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/617BhutanReport_WEB_F.pdf" target="_blank">https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/617BhutanReport_WEB_F.pdf</a></blockquote>

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