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February 9, 2026 · Monday

The quote

“Comfort is not a luxury to be earned later; it is the soil that ordinary days grow in.”

distilled maxim · Hygge

The concept

Relationships

The biggest single predictor of how long, and how happily, you will live.

The longest study of human happiness ever conducted, the Harvard Adult Development Study, started in 1938 and still running, has one finding so clear it is almost embarrassing: the people who are happiest, healthiest, and live longest are t…

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A practice for today

Walk one slow block today and observe the lesson of Relationships. The biggest single predictor of how long, and how happily, you will live.

From the Bhagavad Gita

Verse 9.26

पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति। तदहं भक्त्युपहृतमश्नामि प्रयतात्मनः॥

“Whoever offers me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water — that, the offering of the pure-hearted, I accept.”

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