Everybody seems to only care about their own desires to a fulfilling life, searching for a more physical embodiment of happiness. C. S. Lewis tends to put happiness in a profound way in her article “We Have No Right to Happiness” when she states that “’happiness,’ means simply and solely sexual happiness” (229). What Lewis meant was that happiness is based on more of an emotional and physical feeling. The reading consists of multiple meaning of happiness, based on Lewis’ work, pursuing happiness should be no different than pursuing selfish desires by any means. People always seek for things that may please them from the impulses they have. Instead of giving the audience the answer, she wants to make us believe, that happiness is not what we…show more content… The Dalai Lama in Howard Cutler’s “The Sources of Happiness” shows that “One method is obtaining everything that we want and desire-all the money, houses, and cars; the perfect mate and the perfect body” (27). This shows the desire of people and the things that they tend to do because it brings them this feeling of happiness. The Dalai Lama wanted us to understand that the desires that we have may just be something temporary and wants us to reanalyze what happiness is to us instead of looking for the answers in many things we see each day. This can be seen when he points out that this way of happiness is flawed, due to the fact that desires can grow until it reaches a point where we cannot fulfill no more (27). He wants us to see that there is more than fulfilling our minds with materialistic means that will temporarily satisfy the small desires in our hearts. Humans can strive to do more than simply trying to see our needs. The redeeming quality the Dalai Lama mentions is that we should appreciate what we have (27). From his lessons, what one can learn from him is that happiness comes from your mind, how we should think or do. Finding self-contempt in ourselves and what we can
