Confucius and happiness in 21st century
Yu Dan in a book - Confucius from the Heart: Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World - reinvents Confucius’s 2,500-year-old ideas for the 21st century.
Confucius, the old chinese sage may even help us to unravel one of modernity’s central paradoxes, she adds.
“In modern China, our lives are visibly improving in a material sense, yet many people are growing more dissatisfied. Because we have a highly visible class of people who have suddenly become extremely wealthy, there is always something to make ordinary people feel that their lives contain unfairness. We spend too much time looking at the outside world and too little looking at our hearts and souls. Confucius can teach us the secret of happiness; to find the peace within.”
