The Psychology of Joy - 3 Antidotes to Suffering

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Could we do another on the value of nature ? I loved that segment . Alone and quiet time with the natural creatures and vegetation is so important

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1. Get out in nature 2. Wonder at the mysteries of life (be a mystic) 3. Take a moral holiday

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1.) Get out in nature. A.) when unable to get out in nature, bring nature in with you.

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“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.” ― Antonio Gramsci, Gramsci's Prison Letters

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I love this. Thank you

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I'm a pessimist because of the simple that think they are smarter than all wisdom that has come b4 them.

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Truth

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Quoting a Marxist who engineered the moral degradation we're all here trying to overcome does seem quite ironic indeed.

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@@SepticFuddy Oh look, another functionally-illiterate and innumerate clone who "thinks for himself". High school math competency check: To unload inventory, a warehouse runs a sale on silicon ingots. The sales rate (ingots sold per day) on day t of the sale is predicted to be 40/t (for t ≥ 1), where t = 1 corresponds to the beginning of the sale, at which time none of the inventory of 200 ingots had been sold. Find a formula for the total number of ingots sold up to day t. C(t) = ?

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4) immediately delete instagram, facebook, reddit and the likes

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@Stop my ego. yes twitter and everything remotely similar

[@schilll]

100% yes, did this a few years ago and it helped me a lot. A bit rough at first but great in the long run, its like quitting a drug. I do still have a pseudo anonymous twitter to keep up with markets.

*Gets 18 likes for that* Sweet irony

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True!

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@ still have my weaknesses.. this is a positive comment section, filled with positive people who want to improve their lives, I couldnt care less about likes

[@GavinBaker21]

"Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done" - Julius Evola.

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@A D and?

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@@nicolaimatthew5928 so beware anything that falls out of his mouth, for the source-spring of his soul be poisoned but who am i to distinguish poison from nectar

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@A D Evola was a vigorous critic of Fascism: he found it to be lame and modernist (i.e. not Traditional). Mussolini wasn't pleased with this critique.

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Based.

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[@rogerspable]

Nature says, "he is my creature, and in spite of all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me". - Emerson.

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Wow love that bro thanks for sharing

[@morphingfaces]

Emerson is projecting on nature nature doesn't give a fuck about human predilections

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@@morphingfaces doesn’t change the fact of how nourishing it is for the human soul

[@morphingfaces]

@@colbyd.5044 yeah we are organisms we are part of organic life on this planet but life itself doesn't have time for our ego bullshit

[@hab0272]

When I have morbid thoughts, i do a little thought-experiment: what else can I add to this pile of misery? How can I make a mountain of madness? The posibilities seem to have no limits and shit gets really creative. Then I think: if I can create all of this, What else can I create?

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Ahaha that’s kinda genius. I’m gonna start doing that

:)

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Whoaaaa

[@markdelgado6984]

Bad advice. You must turn to joy. Piling on problems will destroy your mind. Theres a reason for mental hospitals. It's not real just thoughts to distract from joy

[@salveteinfernum]

@@markdelgado6984 you've misinterpreted him slightly, he aims to look at his own misery and then asks, if I am capable of doing this, what else can I create? (It's a slight jab at the self, prompting for positive change)

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I think there has never been a time in history when so many people are being constantly attacked psychologically. Advertising, Financial Pressure, Social Media, TV Media, Identity Politics, Fear Mongering, etc, etc. People need to be protected.

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Protect themselves.

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“A great deal of the energy of pain is derived from the resistance offered to it” Alan Watts

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"There's nothing worth pursuing at the cost of prolonging a life of suffering"-Dazai Osamu

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“I am glad to the brink of fear.” So awesome

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That soothing voice that appears every few weeks in my feed bringing me synthesised wisdom and joy. Thank you Academy of Ideas. Amazing work.

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Thank you for this, I don't know about anyone else, but I sure didn't find this channel because my life was full of joy

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Best channel on KZbin by a mile. "The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance -- by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow."

[@andredelacerdasantos4439]

Could someone explain?

[@SlapShotRegatta22]

Ralph Waldo Emerson. In short, the quote is about how we suffer in this world mainly by our own blind adherence to societal (today, corporate) influence. Once you realize that the majority of these norms are lies, you destroy their power and free yourself.

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@@SlapShotRegatta22 Thanks for sharing and explaining the quote. May I ask where did you read it originally? - I mean, if it's from a book or an essay- Thank you

[@SlapShotRegatta22]

@@tavohernndezTvInc You are most welcome. One of my favorite quotes. It is from a speech Emerson gave in 1837 titled "The American Scholar".

[@tavohernndezTvInc]

@@SlapShotRegatta22 Thanks again! Have a nice rest of the week. :D

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I swear, every time I get in a funk, AoI uploads.

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You have no idea how much I needed this

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Tarek - get ahold of yourself. Nobody is happy. This video is all phycho-babble.

[@ta3970]

Sometimes, when you're filled with joy and are a creature of celebration, you let of a fragrance so sweet that it can attract a form of being that seeks only to steal it from you.

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4) Go on a news holiday, a news blackout. Things gonna be what they gonna be whether you getcher panties twisted over today's political outrage or you decide not to watch the train wreck at all.

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👏👏👏

[@salveteinfernum]

Yeah but that's almost admitting defeat. The political atmosphere is allowed to continue that way because people choose to ignore it. Sure for now it's fine, but in the long run it's what they want and positive change never occurs.

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@@salveteinfernum that part. I can see joy in fighting politically on my own terms.

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The final quote from Nietzsche was powerful, chilling even.

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When I listened to the part about being in nature...I was reminded of the years when we had an old boat. We lived close enough to the bay to take it out once a week or so and I remember, and always described to people a certain feeling that washed over my wife and I as soon as we left the dock....as we jogged the boat thru the no wake zone it was sort of a long doorway and when we hit the open water we literally felt the world melt away. Sitting there bobbing along with some fishing rods In the water, we had some of the best conversations ever....any trace of the day to day BS was gone. So....what Thoreau said.😁 Been thinking I’d like to get another boat.

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A battleship of wisdom. This channel is truly a gem in this world wide web of life.

[@elisabethsteel3382]

I truly believe that to be able to find joy, or to feel joy one must be able to get out of one’s way! 🤗

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I have screenshot the random prolific quotes throughout this short 12 minutes, and plan to actually find a place to scrapbook them all within an appropriate theme on things I'd like to leave behind for my family. Might help them understand better the joy I tried to seek in living once I'm gone. It's complicated, this life we live, but I'm grateful I exist, yet and still.

[@PsychedelicActualization]

"To miss the joy is to miss all!" Wow, so powerful ❤️ But we can also feel into our suffering and stay in the knowing that we are the Awareness that is observing the joy and the suffering.

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@@SoferiaNebruin Weird--you mean you don't get it. He's talking about an enlightened state of consciousness.

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@@laker59y There is not one single "enlightened state of consciousness" other than God and none of us are God. .

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@@SoferiaNebruin Oh God!

[@SoferiaNebruin]

@@pharaoh6824 Maybe I should reword that. There are MULTIPLE STATES of consciousness, including multiple states of so-called "enlightened consciousness" however one might define that. No one even defines it the same way. In other words, there is not a single "destination point" of higher consciousness that people can reach; most traditions consider it an eternal process since no one can BE God. Because of the multiple vantage points, the original comment can have many different meanings or have no meaning.

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Never has this message been more pertinent than now. Thank you.

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These kind of videos are SOOO IMPORTANT right now. Thanks for sharing this message with the world in hard times like these. Its up to us all to keep going. I wish everyone watching this video The Best Day of Their Lives. =)

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This video along with Matt D'Avellas and School of Life are on point today. Everything's gonna be okay!

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Ah. A man of taste

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Pursuit of Wonder and Thoughts on Thinking also dropped a video today!

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I love the holy beauty of nature and animals, they alone make life worth living.

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That Nietzsche quote at the end is what I needed to hear right now... "all eternity was needed to produce this one event" Damn

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Unfortunately, technology screens have replaced all the natural beauty we all need but don't seek. This is the worst time in history to find peace within..Our inner and outer world's are compromised daily with a vengeance.

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sounds like a weak excuse. living in a country which is in warfare would be so much more difficult don’t you think?

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@@Tallyoh we are in warfare in plain sight. In fact peace here is the reason there is war other places.

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As within so without.. Perhaps we are being shown that which needs to be dealt with internally, and only then will things settle externally.

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Overly dramatic nonsense, living in the 21st century still beats the crap out of most of history

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"Pain Is Inevitable, But Suffering Is A Choice." - Dacademeca

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Unless you've got depression! Lol

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@@beardieblighter9905 Even still depression is a choice, you AlWAYS have a choice of being sad or happy and making your life better.

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@@Dacademeca No... you don't, depression is not a choice, it's not as simple as just deciding to feel sad. Depression is a fault in the brain, in which it doesn't produce enough serotonin and dopamine. It's akin to your pancreas not making enough insulin and you ending up with type 1 diabetes. Depression is a biological illness that cannot just be fixed with a change in philosophy, what people with depression need is medication, as right now it's the best we've got.

[@Dacademeca]

Also I'm not saying you can just be sad to happy, what I'm saying g is that you always can improve your life and use philosophy to help you with that, As I did. All medication does is deal with the symptoms of depression but not actually cure it, YOU have to cure and save yourself.

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@@beardieblighter9905 depression is not the same for everyone.

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Nature IS the key.🌞 If we miss the joy, what else is there? Thank you AOI.

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"There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well." R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

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While reflecting on this ive come to realize I cant remeber what joy feels like. I dont even know if ive felt it.

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Thank you perfect timing on this video.

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Just the reaffirmation I needed to see. Thank you

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Beautiful work as always

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So well said. Thank you for all these elegant reminders.

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Watching this as I drive to my hometown where my best friend, my grandfather, is seriously ill on life support. He is the most joyful person I know, and my heart is fearful and not ready for the worst. Still I will emulate my grandfather’s joy as best I can for the remainder of life, which is always worth living. Stay close to your loved ones and hold onto them while you can.

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I have one for you, stop posting and losing time and if something is precious to yourself keep it only for you. for others won't care what is precious for you, and will simple either follow in social sympathy or either mock you. there free of charge XD.

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@@bernhardvonbarret1729 that response was very odd to say the least and seems hateful at the most. I’m not sure who would mock someone for struggling with a family crisis. What in the world would be wrong with sharing or writing about what’s precious. There’s a genuine response free of charge.

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Perfect timing, for this gift of respite.

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I like the brief break of character at the end

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As always your timing exposes how in tuned you are regarding the noosphere and collective unconsciousness guiding the Zeitgeist.

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Love this 😊 I’ve always picked joy, it just feels better

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Great video. Good timing for it too with the days getting shorter and there being less sunlight this time of year.

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Such a brilliant video.

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I always feel a great Sense of Joy when you UP some video, I also feel amazed with the timing that It happens. Yesterday i was searching for some Mindfullness technics to live the present and stops to ruminating some things that already happens... Loved the references btw

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I've recently been struggling. I'm a Christian, but have been more uncertain than ever, since my brother killed himself earlier this year, and have come to realize that I really don't know that much when it comes to Christianity. This video brought me to realization, that every affirmation I have ever felt that there is a creator, or a greater meaning for existence, has been when I felt the wind whisper between my fingers, or the thunder clouds drown out all else, or sat at night under the stars in wonder. Perhaps why I am unsure, is because I have never had a connection to it. By this, I mean I have never felt truly like a part of Christianity. But when I feel the earth beneath my feet, feel the awe inspiring forces of nature, feel the trees as they shake with me in the wind as I run, I am part of this universe. I believe in what I have felt, what I have seen, and what I have truly been a part of.

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"For if we miss the joy, what else is there?" This 💎should've been the initial question.

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