{"id":2112,"date":"2020-11-19T07:21:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T06:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2020-11-20T09:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T08:44:27","slug":"longing-for-happiness-rupert-spira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/longing-for-happiness-rupert-spira\/","title":{"rendered":"Longing for happiness (Rupert Spira)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Longing_for_Happiness_Rupert_Spira.jpg\" alt=\"Longing_for_Happiness_Rupert_Spira.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Longing_for_Happiness_Rupert_Spira.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Longing_for_Happiness_Rupert_Spira-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Questa ricerca continua della felicit\u00e0 &#8211; che non pu\u00f2 mai, per definizione, venir appagata perch\u00e9 quella stessa ricerca nega la felicit\u00e0 presente <em>ora<\/em> nel nostro proprio essere &#8211; ci condanna a una ricerca infinita nel futuro, perpetuando cos\u00ec l&#8217;infelicit\u00e0. \u00c8 per questo che il poeta ha detto: \u201cLa maggior parte degli uomini conduce una vita di tranquilla disperazione\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Rupert Spira<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>***<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>This perpetual longing for happiness &#8211; which can, by definition, never be fulfilled because that very search itself denies the happiness that is present in our own being now &#8211; condemns us to an endless search in the future and thus perpetuates unhappiness. It is for this reason that the poet said, \u201cMost men lead lives of quiet desperation\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Rupert Spira<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[304],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foto-pensieri","tag-rupert-spira"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}