What is total happiness without being too spiritual?

Question

Answers should be very casual without any religion or spiritual attachment.

Answer 1

Happiness is seeing everyone around you happy, healthy, fed and in a clean, healthy environment

Answer 2

Finding something that you are good at and doing it well. Finding something that makes life better for somebody else. Total happiness is often at the end of serious effort. It is the euphoria of acheivement. Too many people think that "fun" is happiness. A lot of them end up in rehab, a psyche ward or a morgue.

Answer 3

Understand the nature of suffering and how we bring this about in our thinking. When we stop thinking in ways that bring about unpleasant states, happiness is the result.

You could think about something you fear right now. You could think about someone who has harmed you in some way. You could think about something that displeases you.

Or you can allow your mind to grow quiet and let those unpleasant emotions evaporate.

Answer 4

'Too spiritual'? You either exist or you do not.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

The Phenomenology of Mind

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FREE CONCRETE MIND (1)

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VI. SPIRIT (1)
Spirit
Φ 438. REASON is spirit, when its certainty of being all reality has been raised to the level of truth, and reason is consciously aware of itself as its own world, and of the world as itself. The development of spirit was indicated in the immediately preceding movement of mind, where the object of consciousness, the category pure and simple, rose to be the notion of reason. When reason “observes”, this pure unity of ego and existence, the unity of subjectivity and objectivity, of for-itself-ness and in-itself-ness — this unity is immanent, has the character of implicitness or of being; and consciousness of reason finds itself. But the true nature of “observation” is rather the transcendence of this instinct of finding its object lying directly at hand, and passing beyond this unconscious state of its existence. The directly perceived (angeshcaut) category, the thing simply “found”, enters consciousness as the self-existence of the ego-ego, which now knows itself in the objective reality, and knows itself there as the self. But this feature of the category, viz. of being for-itself as opposed to being — immanent-within-itself, is equally one-sided, and a moment that cancels itself. The category therefore gets for consciousness the character which it possesses in its universal truth — it is self-contained essential reality (an und für sich seyendes Wesen). This character, still abstract, which constitutes the nature of absolute fact, of “fact itself”, is the beginnings of “spiritual reality” (das geistige Wesen); and its mode of consciousness is here a formal knowledge of that reality, a knowledge which is occupied with the varied and manifold content thereof. This consciousness is still, in point of fact, a particular individual distinct from the general substance, and either prescribes arbitrary laws or thinks it possesses within its own knowledge as such the laws as they absolutely are (an und für sich), and takes itself to be the power that passes judgment on them. Or again, looked at from the side of the substance, this is seen to be the self-contained and self-sufficient spiritual reality, which is not yet a consciousness of its own self. The self-contained and self-sufficient reality, however, which is at once aware of being actual in the form of consciousness and presents itself to itself, is Spirit.



http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phc2.htm

Answer 5

being at peace with yourself, and others. you cansee the good in everthing from a whispy cloud covering the suns glare, or a flower growing in a dead rotted stump.

Answer 6

i'd have to say a fully developped and meditated concept of your own personality and circumstance that acts without requiring that you lose peace with your reality.

Answer 7

Following your BLISS.

Answer 8

Total happiness would be NO SUFFERING AND NO DEATH.