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What Is Real Happiness?
What is real happiness? It is being at one with your soul. So, then what’s a soul? Its everything that the ego is not. The ego tries to build you up. It makes you feel special and protected. But what’s really happening? You wind up being incredible insecure.
“I’m stuck on myself, on my way of doing things. I don’t love the way I am, but I’m addicted to it, and I don’t know how to stop.”
Your soul and your ego are as invisibly mixed as white wine and water. That’s why people are so confused. They wander through life searching for the soul when it’s right there. They all believe their soul will go to Heaven after they die, but the soul is everywhere already.
In other words, the soul is a mystery. It can’t be lost or found. It is neither here nor there. It belongs to you and yet it belongs to God. Without a process, no one would ever get to the bottom of it.
You’re searching for a label. Don’t. The process can’t be named. It’s invisible and yet all-powerful. It alters everything you say and do, yet nothing you say and do is part of it.
You can’t own the process. You can’t cling to it, any more than you could hold on to the smell of the ocean. The process happens entirely in the present. It’s here one second and gone the next.
You keep going back to your old self. That’s the worst addiction. As long as you crave the old self, you can never fully contact the unknown. Everyone is addicted to their old self.
You can’t have real roses, so you buy plastic ones. You can’t think sweet thoughts, so you gobble down sugar. You can’t figure out how to be happy, so you make other people laugh. There’s nothing wrong with what you do, but that’s not real happiness.
Adapted from Why Is God Laughing? The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2008).
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add your comment »Happiness to me is feeling good about myself and helping others...little things bring happiness to me not materialistic. I love putting a smile on others face and accepting people for who they are not what they are...sharing and understanding brings happiness.
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It's one thing to provide TLC for others and it does usually make you feel good and is good for your health unless...you neglect yourself. You have to be good to you as well as good to others and sometimes that is limiting what you do or making sure you have healthy boundaries up so that you don't get abused by yourself or others.
In all things, moderation.
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True very true ! sometimes even if everything is goodie goodie all around ,you are not happy because your inner sense says u should do some creative .Do something to someone needy.Make somebody smile.Try to heal someone.The real happiness is when you are in demand .someone needs you badly.Atleast I Feel that way.
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To me, personality is part of the soul, and all our actions and feelings get imprinted onto this soul. They affect the world/God as well as our inner being, call it soul. And the souls of others. All is connected. Nothing is pure or evil by its own essence, we only label things and people to help us orient ourselves in the world.
Happiness is not absence of suffering or separation from the world of simple pleasures and sugar, but every small progress towards real understanding of the working of the universe, ourselfs included. If we are aware motivations and consequences of our actions, be it consciously or instinctly, we can make all our relationships with ourselves and others more harmonious. With understanding comes forgiveness, love and wonder. What else do we need?
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You're not a long time fan and reader of all Deepak Chopra. He not only "claims" to have insight, he does. Keep studying. You'll get it.
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Andy --- Your desire to learn more and be closer to God is wonderful. Keep that attitude.
Drawing closer to God does NOT mean that you will have smooth sailing all the way, sometimes the seas will be very rough.
The best way to inner peace and happiness that I have found is to accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior.
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