The Art of Happiness

personal change from within, through internaltransformation. For instance, you’ve spokenabout the importance of developing compassion,a warm heart, of overcoming anger and hatred,cultivating patience and tolerance ...”“Yes. Of course, change must come fromwithin the individual. But when you are seekingsolutions to global problems, you need to be ableto approach these problems from the standpointof the individual as well as from the level ofsociety at large. So, when you’re talking aboutbeing flexible, about having a wider perspectiveand so on, this requires the ability to addressproblems from various levels: the individual level,the community level, and the global level.“Now, for instance, at the talk at theuniversity the other evening, I spoke about theneed to reduce anger and hatred through the