new fortune.

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@@ -38054,3 +38054,19 @@ immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity
 to experience happiness at a deeper level, which, when achieved, can overwhelm
 unhappy experiences.
   -- H.H. the Dalai Lama
+~
+We humans are social beings.  We come into the world as the result of
+others' actions.  We survive here in dependence on others.  Whether we like
+it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives in which we do not benefit
+from others' activities.  For this reason it is hardly surprising that most
+of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.  Nor
+is it so remarkable that our greatest joy should come when we are motivated by
+concern for others.  But that is not all.  We find that not only do altruistic
+actions bring about happiness, but they also lessen our experience of
+suffering.  Here I am not suggesting that the individual whose actions are
+motivated by the wish to bring others happiness necessarily meets with less
+misfortune than the one who does not.  Sickness, old age, mishaps of one sort
+or another are the same for us all.  But the sufferings which undermine our
+internal peace—anxiety, doubt, disappointment—these are definitely less.
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama
+