Comments on: doug karr’s happiness manifesto

By: Jan / The Faux Press

Jan / The Faux Press — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:23:42 +0000

The first step toward happiness is to cease and desist intake of mainstream media. Another step was to allow myself to buy anything I wanted so long as it was a tool toward manifesting art. Ah. Life is pretty good these days.

By: gabor

gabor — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:20:05 +0000

Although I would not regard myself as religious, over the last few years I have found the “Serenity Prayer” a useful set of rules for approaching many situations:
“God grant me the serenity to
Accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And the Wisdom to know the difference”.

By: Sensual Sophia

Sensual Sophia — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:55:43 +0000

An equation for happiness:
Happiness = (Actual demands being met) / Expectations
From the above, you can see that it’s easier to become happier by expecting nothing (an happiness goes all the way to infinity) rather than accumulating more and more material things

By: Doug Karr

Doug Karr — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:39:14 +0000

Thank-you, Hugh! And thanks so much for posting this, wow!!!
I see one typo and am sure there are a few grammatical errors… but I’m happy with it .
I’m a huge fan.