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I doubt the holy man's idea of happiness, and I doubt the dreams of happiness-market, too.Whatever happiness may be, I believe, it is neither in having nothing nor in having more, but in changing-in changing the world and(51)______into pure states.
To change is to make efforts to deal with difficulties.As Yeats, a great Irish poet,once put it,happiness we get for a lifetime (52)______on how high we choose our difficulties. Robert Frost,a great American poet,was thinking in almost the same(53)______when we spoke of “the pleasure of taking pains".
It is easy to understand.We even demand difficulty for the fun in our games.We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game.And a game is a way of making something (54)______for the fun of it.The rules of the game are(55)______difficulties,When the player ruins the fun,he always does so by refusing to play (56)______the rules. It is easier to win at chess if youare free,at your pleasure, to cast away all the rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules.
The same is (57)______to happiness.The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market seem to have lost their(58)______of the pleasure of difficulty.Heaven knows what they are playing,but it seems a dull game. And the Indian holy man seems dull to us,I suppose, (59)______he seems to be refusing to play anything at all.The Western weakness may be in the(60)______that happiness can be bought.Perhaps the Eastern weakness is in the idea that there is such a thing as perfect happiness in man himself. Both of themforget a basic fact:no difficulty,no happiness.
(From What Is Happiness?)