| Whenever you feel happy, you were not looking for it. That is the first basic thing about happiness: it happened when you were looking for something else. For example, you have heard the story of Archimedes: he was in search of a scientific truth. He worked, experimented, thought, pondered over it many days and nights. He forgot himself. Then suddenly, when he was in his bath one day, lying down in his tub, it happened, it bubbled up – he realized. He was naked, but he forgot that he was naked. When you are happy you forget yourself; if you cannot forget yourself you are not happy. Happiness means you are no longer there; it happens only when you are not... --Osho The Mustard Seed, ch. 12 |
Archimedes
c. 287-212 BCE
c. 287-212 BCE
aka: Archimedes of Syracuse
Greek: Ἀρχιμήδης
Greek: Ἀρχιμήδης
Greek scientist, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, etc.
very well known in his time
killed by a Roman soldier in the Siege of Syracuse
very well known in his time
killed by a Roman soldier in the Siege of Syracuse
the Archimedes Screw
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