Happiness,” the term that Aristotle uses to designate the highest human good, is ....more like well-being or flourishing than any feeling of contentment. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/34560/Aristotle/254722/Happiness
(xsara-lampos) Χαραλαμπος Joy to shine. (lampos - lamp)
Happiness and Virtue as a MeanEdip Yuksel Happiness is a feeling. It is probably the balance (remainder) of pains and pleasures, fortunes and misfortunes, success and failures, love and hatred, hope and worries. In other words, it is the average perception of all "good" perception minus all "bad" perception. It seems that we have two different concepts of happiness regarding its life-span. Temporal happiness and permanent happiness (or real happiness). The former is our current response (feelings) to a particular pleasing phenomenon. The later is a state of contentment regarding our overall aspects of life.
My Webster's College Dictionary briefly states the modern concept of happiness. You are happy, if you are:
1. delighted, pleased, or glad;
2. characterized by pleasure, contentment, or joy;
3. favored by fortune; fortunate or lucky.
http://www.yuksel.org/e/philosophy/happiness.htm
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Regardless of the definition or origin of happiness or joy if it is promoted by 'outward' things it is only temporary. If happiness is an 'inward' state of mind, no rather a state of the heart, it will flourish in every circumstance regardless of outward pleasures or outward disappointments. But
I really do like the origin of the Greek word, Χαραλαμπος, it is the light φως (phos)..so much of this is coming up for me these days about Light. I'm led to His Light within me as I look for His Light in others. Χαρα is really joy and with the internal shine (lampos), His Light really does shine with Joy from 'within'.So once again this Light of His is not little at all.
Xara - Phos - Lampos
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