In hjs essay "Wisdom," Robert Thum1an argues that the existence of the self is only temporary and conditioned by its sutTounrungs. "Realizing your selflessness," he writes, "does not mean that you...

In hjs essay "Wisdom," Robert Thum1an argues that the existence of the self is only temporary and conditioned by its sutTounrungs. "Realizing your selflessness," he writes, "does not mean that you become a nobody, it means that you become the type of somebody who is a viable, useful somebody, not a rigid, fixated, I'm-the-center-ot:.the-universe, isolated from others somebody. You become the type of somebody who is over the idea of a conceptuaJly fixed and self-created 'self."' WoLtld Fredrickson agree that we are basically selfless? How does positivity resonance change our relations to others, and could it be said to cake us beyond the limits of ourselves? Does love make us more "fixed" or more fluid? What can we learn about ourselves from the fact cliat love, according to Fredrickson, is not just one of the many positive emotions we expe1ience from time to ti.me but has a special status as "our supren1e emotion"?