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Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin • Eusexua is so much more than an ode to clubbing
What recovering alcoholics “have” is not a stake on ultimate wisdom or a lock on virtue, but a way of life that accepts imperfection as imperfection, permitting such spiritual qualities as “serenity” and “the joy of living” to coexist with such earthly realities as “defects” and “shortcomings.”
Ernest Kurtz • The Spirituality of Imperfection
EUDAIMONIA. (noun) from the ancient Greek εὐδαιμονία: The ideal state of human flourishing. To go beyond happiness, health, and prosperity, to living a meaningful and virtuous life.
Richard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin • Eusexua is so much more than an ode to clubbing
Tim: I think optimism is the expectation that things are going to be OK. That we’re going to get a good outcome. Hope is much more about meaning; hope is the will to hold on to our values in the face of difficulty. Optimism is one kind of hope, a rather flimsy sort of hope. What we need now is a more resilient kind of hope, one not based on an
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
sukha are “bliss,” “ease,” and “happiness.”
Chade-Meng Tan • Search Inside Yourself: Increase Productivity, Creativity and Happiness [ePub edition]
To hope is to “borrow grace.” It is not naive optimism. Hope admits the truth of our vulnerability. It does not trust God to keep all bad things from happening. But it assumes that redemption, beauty, and goodness will be there for us, whatever lies ahead.