- How much money does it take to making one happy? -Are satisfying relationships more important than money, fame? Results from a 75-year Harvard study of happiness and longevity. -What is the difference between happiness and joy? -Aristototle's 350 BC Virtue Ethics “To see heaven in a wildflower”

1. FOR HAPPINESS, WHAT MATTERS? RELATIONSHIPS, ENERGY, MATTER.
FOR HAPPINESS, WHAT MATTERS?
Paul H. Carr, PhD

2. RISE. FOR HAPPINESS, WHAT MATTERS?
RELATIONSHIPS, ENERGY, MATTER.
Oct 25. FOR HAPPINESS and HEALTH WHAT MATTERS?
- What makes us happy?
- How much money does it take to making one happy?
-Are satisfying relationships more important than money,
recognition, fame?
Results from a 75-year Harvard study of happiness and
longevity.
-What is the difference between happiness and joy?
- Aristotle, 350BC, virtue ethics.
- “To see heaven in a wildflower (Blake 1800)”

3. WHAT MAKES
YOU HAPPY ?

4. Keep happy with the Happy Gang
Be happy start your day with a bang.
‘Cause if you are happy and healthy
The heck with being wealthy
So keep happy with the Happy Gang
Canadian Broadcasting Program radio program, circa 1945
“Hope you like our music, our songs, and jokes”

5. Happiness at the Mt Washington Hotel

6. Man’s a fool
When it’s hot
He wants it cool.
When it’s cool
He wants it hot.
Always wanting what it’s not

7. Thankfulness
Wanting what you have.
Rather than
Getting what you want.
From a radio sermon cited by a
prisoner on death row.

9. How much money does it
take to make one happy?
“Just a little bit more.”

10. Increasing income for basic-necessities does increase
happiness up to $75,000.
Household over $75,000 does not increase happiness.
(Gallup survey of Americans published in PNAS).

11. Median household income $61,372
Will discuss this on Nov 15,
“Balancing Economics with Ethics”

12. Rural Poverty Church Story

13. -Are satisfying relationships
more important than
money, recognition, fame?
Watch video of results from a 75-
year Harvard study of happiness and
longevity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8
KkKuTCFvzI&t=448s

14. ARISTOTLE’S VIRTUE ETHICS
In 350 BC, Aristotle stated that happiness (also
being well and feeling well) is the only thing that
humans desire for their own sake, unlike riches,
honor, health or friendship.
He observed that humans sought riches, or honor
or health not only for their own sake but also in
order to be happy.
Thus understood, the happy life is the good life,
that is, a life in which a person fulfills one’s own
potential in an excellent way.

15. For Aristotle, 350 BC, the ultimate-goal of human
life is happiness.
• Finding a purpose to realize your potential.
• How virtues like thankfulness, endurance,
character, realistic hope, and meaningful
relationships enable us to become the best
versions of ourselves.
George Washington spoke of the “dissolvable
union between virtue and happiness.”

16. Daily Virtue
Check List from
Benjamin Franklin’s
Autobiography
Temperance
Silence
Order
Resolution
Frugality
Industry
Sincerity
Justice
Moderation
Cleanliness
Tranquility
Chastity
Humility

17. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Benjamin Franklin (1705-1790)
“I had on the whole, and though I never arrived at
perfection, I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but I fell
short of it, yet, I was by the endeavor a better and a
happier man then I otherwise would have been if I had
not attempted it.”
“It may well be my posterity should be informed that to
this little artifice, with the blessing of God, their
ancestor over the constant felicity of his life, down to
his 79 year, in which this is written…
To temperance he describes his long-continued health,
and what is still left to him of a good constitution.”

18. JESUS’ BEATITUDES
SERMON.
ON THE MOUNT
GUIDELINES FOR A
VIRTUOUS-MORAL
LIFE
Like Moses getting
10 Commandments
up on the mountain.

19. Happy are the
peacemakers,
for they shall be
called the
Children of God
One of THE 8
BEAUTITUDES OF
JESUS’
SERMON ON THE
MOUNT (MATTHEW 5)

20. Matthew 5:2-12 English Standard Version (ESV)
The Beatitudes
2 And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven.
4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be
comforted.
5 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
6 “Happy are those who hunger and thirst for
righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
7 “Happy are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
9 “Happy are the peacemakers, for they shall be
called children of God.
10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for
righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute
you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my
account. 12 Re-joice and be glad, for your reward is great
in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were
before you.
JESUS’ SERMON
ON THE MOUNT.
GUIDELINES
FOR A VIRTOUS-
MORAL LIFE

21. What is the difference between
happiness and joy?
We re-joice in our sufferings, knowing that
suffering produces endurance, 4 and
endurance produces character, and
character produces hope, 5 and hope does
not put us to shame, because God’s love
has been poured into our hearts through
the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
(Romans 5: 3 -5)

22. Carr Family in 1985,
the year before Karin, age 46, died of
leukemia.
Paul’s late wife, Karin
(1940 - 1986)
We endure our sufferings, because we have hope that
suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces
character (Experiencing Romans 5:3-5).

23. SERENITY PRAYER (Reinhold Niebuhr)
God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Trusting in God to make all things right.
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So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

24. HOW CAN WE FIND
HEAVEN ON EARTH?

25. “To see heaven in a wildflower” Blake
“The thirst for beauty in our lives is an opening to transcendence.” Hefner

26. Dan Harris used cocaine
while recovering the PTS
from has war reporting.
After having a panic attack
on TV, he was advised to try
meditation, which has given
him inner peace and made
him 10% happier.
Mindfulness is observing of
what is going on in your
mind without acting on it.
A man who meditates
is a happy, hungry man.

27. FOR HAPPINESS, WHAT MATTERS? RELATIONSHIPS,
ENERGY, MATTER.
Oct 25. FOR HAPPINESS and HEALTH WHAT MATTERS?
- How much money does it take to making one happy?
-
-Are satisfying relationships more important than money,
recognition, fame?
Results from a 75-year Harvard study of happiness and
longevity.
- Aristotle, 350 BC, virtue ethics.
-What is the difference between happiness and joy?
“Re-joicing in our sufferings”

28. Thankfulness
Wanting what you have.
Rather than
Getting what you want.
From a radio sermon cited by a
prisoner on death row.

29. FOR HAPPINESS, WHAT MATTERS? RELATIONSHIPS, ENERGY, MATTER.
Nov 1. HOW RELATIONSHIPS MADE THE UNIVERSE & LIFE.
Big-Bang energetic beginning: relationships of matter particles created our physical cosmos.
Symbiotic relations between cells led to the Cambrian explosion of complex and human life.
We are made of stardust.
“Each of us is as old as the universe and experiences our greater self in the larger story of the
universe.” Thomas Berry.
Nov 8. FOM HUMAN RELATIONSIIPS TO CIVILIZATION VIA ETHICS
- Big bang energy first then matter. God’s Spirit is analogous to energy. We can’t see either,
but we can observe their interactions and affects.
-Human cooperative relationships, guided by morals and ethics, enabled civilization.
-How did the forbidden apple, giving Adam and Eve “knowledge of good and evil,” evolve
into the moral and ethical laws that enabled civilization.
-God allows freedom and lures His creation towards His creative aim of greater beauty.
Nov 15. THE RELATIONAL-ETHICAL CHALLENGE OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
“Humanity should be served by wealth and not ruled by it.” Pope Francis
- Constraining economics with ethics
-Pursuit of Individual Profit vs. The Common Good in Society
-How can we maximize Economic Growth and overcome Income Inequality?
Nov 22. GLOBAL RELATIONS: CLIMATE CHANGE, WILL HUNGRY PEOPLE BE HAPPY?.