Years ago I came across some happiness advice that has never failed me. I liked it because it worked for me and I loved the name of the originator, Baruch de Espinosa: or, Spinoza. “Spinoza knowza”, I used to tell my philosophy students.

Stress Is Not What Happens To Us | Sixty And…
Most of us speak of stress as though it is something outside of us. We say, “My job is stressing me out,” or “My family is causing me stress,” or “The news is making me crazy.” We talk as though stress comes flying at us from the outside world, lands


