Comments on: Landmark Forum Leader Joe Dimaggio: An Interview about Happiness

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:34:34 +0000

Hi there!
I attended the Creating Happiness Graduate event in Sydney Australia last night. I was left with an amazing feeling of calm. Happiness is not a tangible object and despite what we are led to believe it is not dependent on circumstance. Sure, mood and opinions can be coloured by circumstance but your WAY OF BEING, your essential (or authentic)YOU is not dictated by that which is out of our control or outside of ourselves.
I know it is “so Landmark” but I really feel that happiness, as a function of Slimplicity, Choice, Self Expression and Real Creativity comes from living a life in which integrity and authenticity are present.
The only thing we have control over is ourselves and how cool is it that you can make a decision about the way you are being and have that be the way you are by virtue that you have said that?! I think that’s amazing!
We concern ourselves with things which we have no control over, don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with that! I am just so empowered by the concept that I am the author of the story of who I am and the ‘way I be’ no matter what life throws at me.
So this afternoon when I am walking to the train station in the pouring rain, having nearly been run over twice and finding out that the train has been cancelled… I’ll still be happy… Why??

Because I said so

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:38:27 +0000

Great interview. Sometimes we spend too much energy in our everyday worries that we are missing this key in front of us.

By: Traysee

Traysee — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:24:35 +0000

Thank you for your interview. I am a Landmark Graduate and I am looking forward to starting my S.E.L.P program this Saturday, in Newport Beach, CA. I have had the pleasure of assisting in a landmark Forum as well. Landmark is an amazing Education in distinctions, it tranforms you from being powerless/possibility-less, to having anything you want in life now. Things will happen in life, but that does not mean that these “things” have to run our life and determine how we are going to look at life.

By: Hiren

Hiren — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:23:18 +0000

While I generally agree that happiness is a subjective issue depending upon one’s thinking and conditioning, it is also a fact that what you do for a majority of waking hours or your occupation has a direct bearing on it. The latin meaning of the word Education itself is to draw out which is already in which is facilitated if one is in the occupation of one’s liking. If this is not possible and beyong one’s control, one has to live in the context as you pointed out but why should one not seek proactively to achieve this self-actualization. I attended one trial workshop of landmark sometime back and I was surprised that the speaker used “invent a new possibility” blindly within the same occupation without considering other alternatives or knowing about the concerned occupation in depth. I don’t think making sweeping generalisations is a sign of good education. As for the other education, I have nineteen published articles in different magazines and our national newspaper(given on my link) in case you are interested.

By: Alex Shalman

Alex Shalman — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:18:31 +0000

Hi Vincent,

Thanks for posting up this interview here as well. I guess now would be a good time to create the possibility of lots and lots of Landmark Forum Graduates visiting my blog. =)