From: Fred T. Hamster Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 17:42:30 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1276 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=935d2dc0b6171094dd950de43bffc56f04a79ed3;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 2fa3bf1c..b8fc73ed 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -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 +