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Are happiness and desire for more (or something) mutually exclusive?
Several things: 1. Being happy, and wanting things, are not just black and white states, they come in graduations. If desiring things you don’t have made you unhappy, you could desire some things and ...
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Are happiness and desire for more (or something) mutually exclusive?
Just to sharpen the terminology — I would differentiate happiness (as a settled intention to not be convinced by circumstances that ‘life is a burden’ or ‘there is nothing new under the sun’…) from ...
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