Where To Find Happiness
Dan Pedersen
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Happy, happiness: Middle English hap, “chance” or “good luck. Ancient Egypt: Hap, the rivergod Nile (Hap); — water=food= happy.” Polish –szczescie : to share. — — China: Fu- abundance, happiness. China: fu, a person kneeling in front of an altar and offering incense sticks. A heron swallowing a fish. Bahasa: haru- happy, feeling, sad. Persian- to grow in depth. Beaut-iful- Latin, beatus, happy. Sukham- Skt, su- good, happiness, one’s original state, not only in Indian philosophy, e.g.: China: “When man is born his being is good.”Happiness, Hebrew, esher, (root): to advance in a straight line, go straight on along the way of happiness, understanding and sharing.

Farsi (Persian): movasat, to prefer the other one to oneself- seven words in English, in Persian only one. Mosavat, equality.