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What The Ancient Greeks Knew About Happiness
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Source: Big Think
Peter Baumann, former member of the band Tangerine Dream and founder of the Baumann Foundation, argues that our baseline is a kind of joy of living, but that we’re easily distracted from it. He explains the ancient Greek distinction between happiness in the moment and lasting, existential happiness, and the value of both.
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/peter-baum…
Via nextworldtv:
“Two kinds of happiness…
Living in the gratification culture, it’s easy to forget something that the Ancient Greeks knew: the mere joy of living in and of itself.
There is happiness for the moment and what comes out of it, but there is another kind of happiness which should be lasting and prevalent throughout our lives.
Let’s try to remember what we’ve forgotten.”
Source: http://www.earth-heal.com/videos/viewvideo/5046/what-the-ancient-greeks-knew-about-happiness.html
