{"id":1314,"date":"2023-02-22T04:26:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/bertrand-russell-on-the-secret-of-happiness-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-02-22T04:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:26:45","slug":"bertrand-russell-on-the-secret-of-happiness-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/bertrand-russell-on-the-secret-of-happiness-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cLet your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.\u201d<\/h2>\n

By Maria Popova<\/h3>\n
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\"Bertrand<\/a><\/p>\n

In my darkest hours, what has saved me again and again is some action of unselfing<\/a> \u2014 some instinctive wakefulness to an aspect of the world other than myself: a helping hand extended to someone else\u2019s struggle, the dazzling galaxy just discovered millions of lightyears away, the cardinal trembling in the tree outside my window. We know this by its mirror-image \u2014 to contact happiness of any kind is \u201cto be dissolved into something complete and great,\u201d<\/a> something beyond the bruising boundaries of the ego. The attainment of happiness is then less a matter of pursuit than of surrender \u2014 to the world\u2019s wonder, ready as it comes. <\/p>\n

That is what the Nobel-winning philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell<\/strong> (May 18, 1872\u2013February 2, 1970) explores in The Conquest of Happiness<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>) \u2014 the 1930 classic that gave us his increasingly urgent wisdom on the vital role of boredom in flourishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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