Comments on: The ways of happiness http://www.chrismorris.com/blog/2009/10/the-ways-of-happiness/ The happy daze of Chris Morris Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:33:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael http://www.chrismorris.com/blog/2009/10/the-ways-of-happiness/#comment-1006 Michael Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:16:57 +0000 http://www.chrismorris.com/blog/?p=278#comment-1006 Chris, I am wondering if you know the exact source of that Michael Neill story you mentioned. Did you find it on a website somewhere, or in a book? I'm doing some research work and would like to use it, but I need to know how to properly cite it. Thanks! Chris,

I am wondering if you know the exact source of that Michael Neill story you mentioned. Did you find it on a website somewhere, or in a book? I’m doing some research work and would like to use it, but I need to know how to properly cite it.

Thanks!

]]> By: pleasureprinciple http://www.chrismorris.com/blog/2009/10/the-ways-of-happiness/#comment-645 pleasureprinciple Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:25:18 +0000 http://www.chrismorris.com/blog/?p=278#comment-645 chris, I think similar to you on happinness. i have just started my journey with the practisioner course but appreciate happinness is already there within me. Being piscean I have spent a lifetime tuning in to what my natural state is. Thank you for articulating inner core so well Des chris,
I think similar to you on happinness. i have just started my journey with the practisioner course but appreciate happinness is already there within me. Being piscean I have spent a lifetime tuning in to what my natural state is. Thank you for articulating inner core so well
Des

]]> By: aanteladda http://www.chrismorris.com/blog/2009/10/the-ways-of-happiness/#comment-503 aanteladda Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:14:55 +0000 http://www.chrismorris.com/blog/?p=278#comment-503 Happiness for me just is..beyond joy, laughter, sorrow, annoyance, anything. It is deeper than these surface emotions that come and go, but none of these have the power to touch the core. It is a bit like a joyous kid saying, "Cant catch me!" and one takes a few years to realise that one doesnt have to chase the child for it to belong. Can it be shaken? Of course - but trust it, it belongs. But sometimes I wonder, being simply happy..does it make me too simple? Not willing to engage when I should or could? Happiness for me just is..beyond joy, laughter, sorrow, annoyance, anything. It is deeper than these surface emotions that come and go, but none of these have the power to touch the core. It is a bit like a joyous kid saying, “Cant catch me!” and one takes a few years to realise that one doesnt have to chase the child for it to belong. Can it be shaken? Of course – but trust it, it belongs.

But sometimes I wonder, being simply happy..does it make me too simple? Not willing to engage when I should or could?

]]> By: Margaret Johnson http://www.chrismorris.com/blog/2009/10/the-ways-of-happiness/#comment-484 Margaret Johnson Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:10:24 +0000 http://www.chrismorris.com/blog/?p=278#comment-484 Mmmm, the sun is always shining that's a fact. Just not on all the earth at once, or on all the people. And a good thing too. I wonder how much more desert there would be if it were. Happiness a natural state. So is hunger: Seasonal affective disorder; and myopia. Pain is also a natural state given certain circumstances. I would have described happiness as a state of mind: your article seems to imply that happiness is dependant on mind over matter. Is this what you are saying Chris or do you acknowledge at all that circumstances affect happiness and all other states of mind. The value we place on various circumstances and physical /material assets affects happiness and that other peoples attitudes toward us can affect our state of mind? I am not saying that I believe there is nothing one can do about those things. Unless of course you are a small child or imprisoned and have your life totally controlled by someone else. My point is if we are happy no matter what our circumstances is that good or even OK. for the human race ? Does it benefit us to disassociate from adverse circumstances and pretend/claim that everything is OK and we are happy, rather than move away from them or make efforts to change them? In my view the human state of mind is what drives the human race to do things that make a material difference to our lives and our happiness. Mmmm, the sun is always shining that’s a fact. Just not on all the earth at once, or on all the people. And a good thing too. I wonder how much more desert there would be if it were.
Happiness a natural state. So is hunger: Seasonal affective disorder; and myopia. Pain is also a natural state given certain circumstances.
I would have described happiness as a state of mind: your article seems to imply that happiness is dependant on mind over matter. Is this what you are saying Chris or do you acknowledge at all that circumstances affect happiness and all other states of mind. The value we place on various circumstances and physical /material assets affects happiness and that other peoples attitudes toward us can affect our state of mind? I am not saying that I believe there is nothing one can do about those things. Unless of course you are a small child or imprisoned and have your life totally controlled by someone else.
My point is if we are happy no matter what our circumstances is that good or even OK. for the human race ? Does it benefit us to disassociate from adverse circumstances and pretend/claim that everything is OK and we are happy, rather than move away from them or make efforts to change them? In my view the human state of mind is what drives the human race to do things that make a material difference to our lives and our happiness.

]]> By: Tania http://www.chrismorris.com/blog/2009/10/the-ways-of-happiness/#comment-485 Tania Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:12:44 +0000 http://www.chrismorris.com/blog/?p=278#comment-485 That is a cool way to think about it, thanks a lot. That is a cool way to think about it, thanks a lot.

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