The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day

In the original Greek, philosophia has the meaning “love of wisdom.” In other words, philosophy is “the study of the love of wisdom,” and philosophers are “lovers of wisdom.” Conversely, one could say that if a person were to become a complete “wise man” who knows all there is to know, that person would no longer be a lover of wisdom (philosopher).

Is it all right to just stay away from other people, and shut oneself up in one’s room? No, it is not all right. It is not all right at all. The reason it is not is that all the joy of humanity comes from interpersonal relationships too. A person living “all alone in the universe” would have to lead a life that is utterly flat and featureless, with

Because history is always written by the victor? PHILOSOPHER: It is the same with us as individuals. Every person is a compiler of a story of “me,” who rewrites his or her own past as desired to prove the legitimacy of “me now.”

PHILOSOPHER: And now, you are seeking only “to have something given” to you, without having given anything. Just like a beggar. It is not that you are poor financially, but that you are poor in spirit. YOUTH: You disrespectful son of a … !! PHILOSOPHER: We have to keep our hearts abundant and give what we have saved up to others. We must not wait f

In our search for truth, we are walking on a long pole that extends into the darkness. Doubting our common sense and engaging in continual self-doubt, we just continue to walk on that pole without any idea of how far it may go. And then, from out of the darkness, one hears a voice inside saying, “Nothing further lies ahead. Here is truth.” YOUTH: H

Whether in interpersonal relationships at one’s workplace, in relationships between lovers, in international relationships, or what have you, we need to have more concern for other people’s concerns.

By saving another person, one tries to be saved oneself. By passing oneself off as a kind of savior, one attempts to realize one’s own worth. This is one form of the superiority complex that people who cannot dispel their feelings of inferiority often fall into, and is generally referred to as a “messiah complex.” It is a mental perversion of wanti

Ha-ha, what a laugh! So now it all boils down to love? You’re saying that if I want to know the real Adler, I have to know about love?

One must not just observe from a distance. One must dive in oneself.