Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Happiness...

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life". Albert Camus.
It seems that the happiest people are those who experienced something that the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi called "Flow", experiences in which the person is totally immersed, since they are apppealing and motivating to the person. If a person is totally involve in a experience is not self conscious, neither thinking in the pass or future. The person is living in the present. Western psychologists called this "Mindfulness".
This idea of being totally engage in the present is so interesting to me , because imply that one is not thinking (something really hard to achieve), you just become a witness, an spectator. The person is living the experience without judging. The duality between self and object disappear to become one. I agree with the accurate words of Albert Camus, happiness can not be defined, pursuit. Happiness has to be with being consciuos only of the present, here and now.

2 comments:

Choyi said...

Nice work, Daniela!
The Quotation from Albert Camus comes to my mind nicely.
And I totally believe that 'Flow' makes our lives extremely happy!
See you soon. :)

Alaa M said...

Hi my fried...
I agree with your saying 100%.