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Many of you are aware there's been a lot of increasing, increasing amounts of

research on happiness.

And some years back, a Gallup poll had an interesting finding, which was that

we are least happy in our 20s and then our happiness is less than our 20s and it

is in our 80s.

And one of the psychologists that was involved with studying this says it's not

being driven predominantly by things that happen in life, this happiness in our 80s.

It's something very deep and quite human that seems to be driving this and then the

pointers go to acceptance, that it's acceptance of whatever's unfolding that

enables us to really derive pleasure from the simple things.

It's not any longer hitch to certain highs, having things go a certain way.

So this is the kind of happiness that sometimes described as the blessing of an awakening

heart, the happiness that's not hitch to circumstances.

And the good news is that it's still within reach for those of you who are not that

near to 80.

So what I'd like to do at this class and the next week is look more deeply at happiness

at what blocks happiness and two key pathways that are very interweaving, that bring the peace

and happiness, the appreciation that really are the heart qualities that we think of

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