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Our world often assumes that happiness is the highest human good. Happiness is measured, marketed, pursued, and celebrated. But what does it mean to live a truly fulfilled human life? From both Christian and Buddhist perspectives, happiness is important to human wellbeing, but genuine and lasting happiness cannot be detached from truth, virtue, compassion, and …
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Few questions have occupied human beings more persistently than the question of the nature and source of happiness. Across the ancient world, philosophers, sages, and spiritual teachers sought to understand what constitutes a good life and how human beings might attain lasting fulfilment. Although these traditions emerged independently in Greece, Rome, China, India, and the …
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News that the world has seen the arrival of its first trillionaire captures public attention because it triggers shock and envy, and pushes familiar questions about wealth into unfamiliar territory. Human societies have always contained rich and poor, merchants and labourers, rulers and subjects. Yet a personal fortune measured in trillions of dollars represents wealth …
This weekend is notable for two things: first, it’s the start of Daylight Saving in the enlightened states of Australia, a truth that will dawn painfully on those who arrive for church about thirty minutes from now. Second, it’s footy Grand Final weekend in two of the three major codes, which this year is a …
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