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Eye on the world: The source of happiness
In “World Happiness Report: What makes some countries happier than others?” The Christian Science Monitor reports on the results of the UN’s World Happiness Report Update 2016, in which “a group of largely western, European countries” came out on top. The article cites some observations by the report’s co-editor: “ ‘Measuring self-reported happiness and achieving well-being should be on every nation’s agenda … Rather than taking a narrow approach focused solely on economic growth, we should promote societies that are prosperous, just, and environmentally sustainable.’ ”
Ideas on this subject:
From the Bible:
Your joy no man taketh from you.
—John 16:22
In thy presence is fulness of joy.
—Psalms 16:11
Ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace.
—Isaiah 55:12
From the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 57
Soul has infinite resources with which to bless mankind, and happiness would be more readily attained and would be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul.
—Science and Health, p. 60
Happiness consists in being and in doing good; only what God gives, and what we give ourselves and others through His tenure, confers happiness: conscious worth satisfies the hungry heart, and nothing else can.
—Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p. 17
Related articles from the Christian Science Sentinel:
In “Where joy comes from”: “ In prayer we can turn to God, to acknowledge Him as our source, and to understand more fully the joy that comes directly from divine Love and is expressed in us as an inherent part of our nature.” And “To the degree that we follow Christ in cultivating a Christly, spiritual love for others, we are filled with joy—it can’t be helped!”
In “The basis of happiness”: “Looking to divine Love, the great Giver of all good, as the source of all that we can truly desire or need, we learn more of what genuine happiness is and how it is to be obtained. We learn that happiness is the fruitage of spiritual love—love that is pure and Christlike, reflecting divine Love.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.