Sunday, July 11, 2004
The happy person has good rules to follow.
Aristotle said, "The happy life for a man is a life of consciously following a rule".
To be happy you need three things.
1. A good rule.
2. The reasoning ability to determine the right rule.
3. The ability to follow a rule.
The classic Greek rule is the rule of balance.
To have happiness and goodness in our souls we need to train ourselves not to do too much or too little of anything. This can be applied to all aspects of life.
The ability to follow a rule can be trained into a person's being. Through repetition of deliberate acts, we acquire the ability to act on decisions without being distracted.
And, since the ability to follow through on one's decisions is pleasing in itself, the more we train the ability, the more pleasing it becomes to practice it on a continual basis.
See Mark Zavodnyik
To be happy you need three things.
1. A good rule.
2. The reasoning ability to determine the right rule.
3. The ability to follow a rule.
The classic Greek rule is the rule of balance.
To have happiness and goodness in our souls we need to train ourselves not to do too much or too little of anything. This can be applied to all aspects of life.
The ability to follow a rule can be trained into a person's being. Through repetition of deliberate acts, we acquire the ability to act on decisions without being distracted.
And, since the ability to follow through on one's decisions is pleasing in itself, the more we train the ability, the more pleasing it becomes to practice it on a continual basis.
See Mark Zavodnyik
