Happiness Pursuit

When does the human pursuit of happiness that we are all engaged in go from being awe-inspiring and courageous to ambitious and greedy? We all want happiness and we are all engaged in the pursuit of happiness, but we all picture happiness in different ways... and some are problematic.

Is there such thing as a source of happiness that is greater than all the ways we picture it, and is it achievable? This is an unbelievable article that raises these questions in relation to The Pursuit of Happyness' themes, and opens a window to a new way of understanding happiness and how to achieve it. The inspiring, courageous pursuit of happiness isn't just for Chris Gardner, it's for all of us.

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"If, according to the Declaration of Independence, we are all entitled to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' why does it so often seem that we are pursuing the unattainable?" - Michael Laitman, in "The Pursuit of Happiness."

The American Dream, the courageous pursuit of success so well captured in The Pursuit of Happyness, is taken to the scientist's lab in this argumentative piece by Michael Laitman.

According to Laitman, the essence of the American Dream contains an inherent flaw that will never allow it to come true: "it ignores human nature."

Human nature is defined in this article as being "to exploit the lives of all other people in the world for one's own benefit." According to this definition of human nature, Laitman argues that precisely because we are only aiming our happiness toward ourselves, we are not achieving happiness. Moreover, according to Laitman, this is the cause of the global crisis and the increasing pains we are now witnessing.

Laitman continues by stating that by changing our self-aimed pursuit of happiness to a pursuit of happiness aimed at making the whole of humanity happy, only then can we achieve and experience true happiness.

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