Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. I feel so warm and content with who I am and am okay with what is is. Thank you. There is no greater gift.

There's a story about a king who challenges his wise men to bring him something that, when he's sad it will make him happy, and when he's happy it will make him sad. They spent months on the project, and return to him with a small ring engraved with the saying, "This too, shall pass." It's a great reminder that everything is cyclical. 

Do You really Want Happiness?

Unhappy people are always confused when they are told to try and be happy. Their minds are occupied by grievances; there seems to be no room for new experiences that might be uplifting, and even if they came
along, they would be seen through the gray haze of one's misery. 

So the search cannot be for happy experiences. Those are already available in abundance. The search is for an opening that allows happiness to become your experience. This opening comes about very differently from the way most people suppose. Most people try to make themselves happy by forcing their unhappy feelings underground, or by turning their backs on them or pretending that they don’t exist.

If you have a closet stuffed with junk, the best way to find room for new stuff is to clean the closet. In this case the closet is the nervous system, and one cleans it out at the level of awareness.

Communicate your desire to be free of this hurt. Ask for inner guidance to The healing process isn’t mystical; it involves well-known practical steps. Look directly at what hurts you and let it show you what to do. Listen to what you feel, but don’t give in to it. Know for certain that you can remove old hurts. Be patient, since you will have to return to your old hurt many times.

Most people feel trapped by their resentments because their behavior runs counter to these steps. They don’t look honestly at their hurt but focus instead on blaming someone outside themselves. They don’t communicate a desire to let go of their anger but keep nursing it. Instead of listening to what they feel in the moment, they replay the same tired reactions from the past. Instead of being patient, they take a few stabs at healing only to conclude that there’s nothing to be done.

Adapted from: Peace Is the Way, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2005).

If you look to others for fulfillment,
           you will never truly be fulfilled.
           If your happiness depends on money,
           you will never be happy with yourself.
           Be content with what you have;
           rejoice in the way things are.
           When you realize there is nothing lacking,
           the whole world belongs to you.
                       ~~Lao Tzu

              Smiling
  "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
  but sometimes your smile can be the source of
  your joy."
                   ~~Thich Nhat Hanh

Physiologically, it's been shown that smiling can make
us feel happy, even if weare forcing the smile deliberately.
   Regardless of the science, it makes sence to smile, whether we feel like it or not. A smile engergizes our brain as well as our muscles.
And we don't want our face to settle into sadness.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.........

“Life began, one day you found yourself with it.

Consciousness came, consciousness went. Thoughts came, thoughts went. Something inside surged, wanted to know: wanted to be with that thing, wanted this life to be real, wanted every hair, every cell, every fiber, to feel that there is something real here.

Then, the great Midas touch - everything you touch turns into illusion. Until somebody comes along and says something that reminds you...” MAHARAJIdocument.write('”');

.....One of the ways in which cats show happiness is
     by sleeping.
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                     Cleveland Amory
                     American Writer

Happiness is Rainbows~

NEAR to Happiness
"To be kind to all, to like many
and love a few, to be needed and
wanted by those we love, is
certainly the nearest we can come
to happiness."
    ~Mary Roberts Rhinehart

Smile~~~