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The Meaning of Life is Happiness!

March 7th, 2009

Life is an interesting fenomenon, and during the recent centuries human beings of what we call the western world seem to have lost touch with nature, our origin. Through evolution we have become more aware of ourselves we tend to spend more time thinking about why we are and what to do with life.

Why are we here?

Why are we here?

However, philosophies rooted in east often seem to have a smaller gap to our inner selves and tend to provide some answers to this very question. Dalai Lama almost childishly simply but accurately states in his book The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living that “the meaning of life is happiness”. How much effort have we not spent on trying to figure out why we exist, and he gives the simple ansver on the very first page. Brilliant! What else could serve a better purpouse in life?

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