Happiness Studies by Tal Ben-Shahar

Author:Tal Ben-Shahar
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030648695
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

In his short and brilliant poem “Harlem,”4 Langston Hughes asks, “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up, like a raisin in the sun?” What happens to a purpose or a calling that is denied us, or that we neglect? Hughes’s poem squarely falls at the intersection between literature and the first spiritual principle (S1)—A purposeful life is a spiritual life. To lead a spiritual life, suggests Langston, it is not enough to have a dream. We need to live our dream.

Passage Meditation ,5 a book by English professor and spiritual teacher Eknath Easwaran, provides an eight-part program of transformation. The first part is the foundation of the program; it involves silently reading and re-reading a single passage from one of the world’s great religious traditions. While Easwaran provides a list of recommended texts, including Psalm 23 and the Prayer of Saint Francis, we are encouraged to pick a text that we intimately connect to and find personally meaningful. In this book Easwaran is urging us to engage mindfully with a theological text for the purpose of enjoying a spiritual experience. This is an expression of the second spiritual principle (S2): The ordinary is elevated to the extraordinary through mindful presence.

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