TED Talk: Paul Zak: Trust, morality -- and oxytocin

I was struck by the following passage from the Sayings of Adarbad Mahraspandan:

For there is no misfortune which has befallen me, Adhurbadh, son of Mahraspand, from which I have derived six kinds of comfort.

First, when a misfortune , I was thankful that it was no worse.

Secondly, when a misfortune fell not upon my soul but upon my body, (I was ( Read more... )

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Well! I just said in the last post that I didn't know of gratitude as a virtue, but there you go. And said by a fine Pagan.

Faced with the question of what virtues should or should not be in our ADF list, or if there are any others I would include, only one idea stands out to me: Gratitude ( Read more... )