The Nature of Happiness

“Are We Having Fun Yet?”
Uncommon Sense about the Nature of Happiness.

Real Enjoyment

Real enjoyment, divine enjoyment, comes from service, not from exploitation, control or power.

Inner pleasure

When the heart is full, it no longer seeks pleasure outside of itself.

Run Into Yourself

Every time we look for a diversion to drug our unhappiness, we run away from a self we don’t want to face. Yogis don’t run away from themselves, they run into themselves.

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Spiritual needs, if neglected, leave a vacuum in the heart that cannot be filled with things. Therefore, unfulfilled spiritual needs create an unfulfilled life even when your material dreams come true.

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The Happiness Formula

If you want to be happy, don’t try. Make someone else happy.

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You Are Happiness

Your nature is happiness. Striving for external happiness creates alienation from self. The more you try to be happy outside of yourself, the unhappier you become.

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Gratitude and Satisfaction

With gratitude for what we have, we are satisfied. Otherwise, we tend to take for granted what we feel we deserve.

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Acceptance of Who You Are

Satisfaction does not necessarily mean complacency; but it does require acceptance of who you are.

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Appreciation is the Antidote

Appreciation for what you have is the antidote for hankering for what you don’t have, or lamenting for what you’ve lost. It allows you to accept whatever situation you are in as a divine arrangement and thus be satisfied.

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The Nature of Matter

The nature of material things is that the more you have, the more you want. It works this way with everything: wealth, power, possessions, and prestige. Thus, people who have the most are not necessarily the happiest or most satisfied.

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Ruled by Our Rules

Our experience of happiness, success and well-being are not defined by circumstances or outcomes as much as they are by our own definitions and expectations of happiness, success and well-being.

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