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Be Bestowed With Happiness
Happiness is not a unique thing. It is one flavor of essence among many.
The happiness you are used to comes and goes. Instead of thinking of this as a well that runs dry, imagine the atmosphere. There’s always humidity in the atmosphere, and sometimes it releases itself as rain. The days when it doesn’t rain haven’t made the humidity go away; it’s always present in the air, waiting to precipitate as conditions change.
You can take the same attitude toward happiness, which is always present in awareness without having to precipitate every moment–it shows itself as conditions change. People are different in their baseline of emotion, and some experience more cheerfulness, optimism, and contentment than others.
This variety expresses the diversity of creation. You can’t expect the desert and the rain forest to behave the same. Yet these alterations in personal makeup are superficial. The same unchanging happiness can be accessed in everyone’s awareness. Don’t use the ups and downs of your personal happiness as a reason for not journeying to the source.
Trying to be happy as an end in itself is limited; you will be fortunate just to meet your ego’s requirements for a happy life. If instead you devote yourself to a total shift in awareness, happiness arrives as a gift freely bestowed by consciousness.
Adapted from The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2004).
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Happiness shows us how to love.
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Its all in the mind. U are what u think. Think positive and God will bring positivity into your life. God will help u see the good in all situations dispelling feelings of unhapiness as u will realize there is a reason for everything happening and God knows best what is good for u and what is not. That brings u to a contentment and acceptance phase with WHAT IS sensing the presence of GOD within u resulting in u reaching a state of happiness and joy from within
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Happiness is just waiting out there for you to embrace and enjoy -go for it there is tons of it! But you first need to have is 'attitude of fearlessness'.This elixir of life miraclously takes hold of the
individual and ignite all the senses and emotions into a frenzy of joy and ectasy. Be warn it is contagious.
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"...if...you devote yourself to...total awareness...happiness arrives..." Heavy but true statement. While it is never acceptable to "gloat" over another's sad state of being, there is always something to compare to and to find that things can be much worst than they are. This alone if nothing else, should go beyond happiness and bring about an unquenchable joy, it does for me.
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I don't think the idea is to find joy in other's misery. That seems like anti-happiness.
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"...if...you devote yourself to...total awareness...happiness arrives..." Heavy but true statement. While it is never acceptable to "gloat" over another's sad state of being, there is always something to compare to and to find that things can be much worst than they are. This alone if nothing else, should go beyond happiness and bring about an unquenchable joy, it does for me.
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