Salaams and Good Morning !
Here is your daily dose of Wisdom for Living Your Best Self!
Continuing our conversation about Eudaimonia, we could also talk about it as living the good life versus chasing the good mood.
Ward Farnsworth in The Practicing Stoic, puts it really beautifully. He says:
"Stoics regard virtue as sufficient to produce happiness on all occasions, and also as necessary for it. The happiness centrally valued by the Stoic is eudaimonia, or well-being—the good life rather than the good mood. . . the Stoic believes that virtue gives rise to joy and to peace
of mind as well. Virtue produces these good consequences as side effects. The primary mission of the Stoics, in other words, is to be helpful to others and serve the greater good, and they don’t do this to make themselves happy. They do it because it is the right and natural way to live. But doing it in that spirit, as it turns out, makes them happy."
In other words, living a life of virtue has happiness as a consequence of it. This reminds me of wisdom from the Quranic verse which says:
Is the reward of goodness (Ahsan) anything but goodness (Ahsan)? [Holy Quran 55:60]
Let us aspire to live the good life rather than chase the good mood, shall we?
Wishing you a day full of positivity, purpose and peace. 
