My Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

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Monthly Archives: May 2009



What’s Essential To Happiness?

“It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.” –Bertrand Russell That’s why the first of my Twelve Commandments is to Be Gretchen. * If you love the performing arts, my friend …


Be Happier: Embrace the paradoxes of a happiness project.

I’m working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone’s project will look different, but it’s the rare person who can’t benefit. Join in — no need to catch up, just jump in right now. Each Friday’s post will help you think about your own happiness project. I’ve been very struck by an observation by physicist Niels …