READING 1: Psychology of Happiness by David Myer
DOWNLOAD MY CLASSNOTES IN PDF: PP 5 Correlates of Happiness
Veenhoven, R.. (2009). World Database of Happiness: Tool for dealing with the ‘data-deluge’. Psychological Topics 18(2), 221-246.
Veenhoven, R. (2012). Cross-national differences in happiness: Cultural measurement bias or effect of culture? International Journal of Wellbeing, 2(4), 333-353.
Happiness
Sermon for Cycle A – 8th Sunday Homily
Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof (Cf. Mt 6:34)
Here in Nairobi, I stay in a community which provides facilities and programmes for youth trainings and retreats. When I was in this community six years ago, we created a labyrinth in the premises. A labyrinth is a maze-like structure in which people walk prayerfully, and often experience peace and tranquillity. The labyrinth that we have constructed is a type of a prayer garden – you go through one entrance, walk all the way to the centre, and then you make your way out of the labyrinth through another path, finally exiting not far from where you entered. As people walk through these winding ways there are stations to stop by, where they are invited to do some simple symbolic actions in a prayerful way. When I wrote the instructions for these stations, little did […]
Sermon for Cycle A – 22nd Sunday Homily: Discipleship & Spirituality
Sunday Homily for
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle A
The headlines of the past week’s newspapers here inLondonhave been about the fall of the former Libyan leader. I was wondering why the man with so much accumulated wealth and power could not have saved himself in good time so as to continue to enjoy at least part of his wealth and power. Unfortunately, perhaps his inflated instinct to save himself got the better of him. He might not enjoy anymore the possibilities that existed for him even a few months ago. “For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it” (Mt 16:25a).
On the other side of the globe, the headlines in the Indian subcontinent have been about a poor, unmarried man (Anna Hazare) who suddenly shot to fame because he went on a fast unto death campaign, joined by hundreds of thousands of supporters, pressing the government ofIndiato […]