Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.