Appreciated the distinction that Chip Conley made between the acquisitive form of "happiness", or gratification, which seems to be merely an object of pursuit, and is often only conditional, and the receptive form of "happiness", or gratitude, which seems more a subject to be accepted, not pursued, and is unconditional. The latter being closer to the sense of "joy" referred to in the joy of life, joie de vivre, to which he advocates for all of us, in business, in nationhood, and in personal life.
A favorite poetical "methodology for metric analysis" related to gratitude and joy was given many years ago by WB Yeats:
I am content to follow to its source Every event in action or in thought; Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot! When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blest.
On Sep 2, 2016 transcending wrote:
Appreciated the distinction that Chip Conley made between the
acquisitive form of "happiness", or gratification, which seems to be
merely an object of pursuit, and is often only conditional, and the
receptive form of "happiness", or gratitude, which seems more a subject
to be accepted, not pursued, and is unconditional. The latter being
closer to the sense of "joy" referred to in the joy of life, joie de
vivre, to which he advocates for all of us, in business, in nationhood,
and in personal life.
A favorite poetical "methodology for metric analysis" related to gratitude and joy was given many years ago by WB Yeats:
I am content to follow to its source
Every event in action or in thought;
Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot!
When such as I cast out remorse
So great a sweetness flows into the breast
We must laugh and we must sing,
We are blest by everything,
Everything we look upon is blest.