A piece of wisdom from
March 4, 2026 · Wednesday
The quote
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
— Mignon McLaughlin · Relationships
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…
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 3.35
श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात्। स्वधर्मे निधनं श्रेयः परधर्मो भयावहः॥
“Better one's own dharma, even though imperfectly performed, than the dharma of another well performed. Better death in one's own dharma; the dharma of another is fraught with fear.”
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