What Is Happiness?
What is it that everyone is seeking? Happiness with no sorrow. A continuous happiness with no taint whatsoever of sorrow.~Lester Levenson Happiness is our basic nature. We rarely find it because we are not in touch with our basic nature. Instead we look for happiness everywhere where it doesn't exist. The world equates happiness with fulfilling a desire. Yet every goal achieved and every possession finally owned is a fleeting pleasure. I do appreciate what I have. Yes, I am grateful for it. However, satisfaction and pleasure are not the same as happiness. Again, one can be loved, even adored, and still not be happy. People, for example, considered Elvis Presley adorable. He was beautiful, talented, and kind-hearted. Yet, he, himself, was not happy. What, then, is happiness? Everybody craves it, but few enjoy it. And those that do enjoy it, do so only fleetingly. Seasons pass and what was once considered a source of endless delight fades in its glory. The closest we can get to happiness is through love. Loving stimulates happiness. This happiness arises when we give love. It arises because love, too, is our basic nature. Thus, when we love, we are happy; and we are happy because we are being ourselves, expressing our true nature. Our true nature is happiness. This is the quality of soul. In fact, soul, in its primal aspect, is a consciousness that is blissful, wise, and powerful beyond measure. However, we seldom experience our true nature and seldom get in touch with our souls because the limitations of thought shadow the soul the way clouds hide the sun. It is the task of every person to discover their own soul. This quest is fulfilled through spiritual practices. As we shed our illusions about the nature of the world and our relationship to it, we become more aware of our own luminosity. When we give, love, and share, we touch upon the majesty of our soul. We bring it out into the world. We slip out from behind the veil of mind and show ourselves. One who has stripped away all veneer of thought, all layers of mind, becomes ensouled.
When the mind is quiet there is nothing left over but the infinite Self. Resource Box Saleem Rana got his Masters degree in psychotherapy from California Lutheran University. His articles on the internet have inspired over ten thousand people from around the world. Discover how to create a remarkable life Copyright 2004 Saleem Rana. Please feel free to pass this
article on to your friends, or use it in your ezine or
newsletter. It's a shareware article.
Related News
Little happiness in Haiti - MSNBC
Little happiness in HaitiMSNBC -Oct 4, 2008By Mara Schiavocampo, NBC Nightly News digital correspondent Last week I was in Haiti covering the aftermath of four fierce storms that slammed the island ... |
Why money can't necessarily buy happiness... - Sify
Eat your way to happiness - Yakima Herald-Republic
Eat your way to happinessYakima Herald-Republic, WA -Oct 4, 2008by SPENCER HATTON The death-spiral of the stock market these past few weeks has done wonders for the makers of Tums. Acid indigestion is now a part of the ... |
A day of great happiness - Fiji Times
A day of great happinessFiji Times, Fiji -16 hours agoOLD scholars of Adi Cakobau School converged on familiar ground in Sawani on Saturday to celebrate the school's 60th anniversary. ... |
Our pursuit of happiness - Chicago Tribune
Our pursuit of happinessChicago Tribune, United States -Oct 5, 2008Researchers like Diener are trying to convey what philosophers have long written: True happiness lies in the pursuit of deeply held goals, not in fleeting ... |
Charity is laudable, but it can't provide health care for all - Salt Lake Tribune
Is 'F*** It' therapy the key to happiness? - Metro
The secrets of happiness - Tehran Times
The secrets of happinessTehran Times, Iran -Oct 4, 2008There's good news in these findings: Given the right disposition, in the face of difficulty, people can still find renewed happiness. What makes for a happy ... |
VoIP Providers: Providing The Happiness of Talking Without Any Frowns - TMC Net
Tilghman not surprised by income, happiness survey results - Princeton University The Daily Princetonian
|
|
 |
|
|
RELATED ARTICLES
10 Ways to Bring Meaning to Your Life
My life always appears to be so hectic. It's as if I purposely overload myself with more things than I could possibly ever accomplish. As I'm going to sleep I think about all the things I need to get done And when I'm awake during the day I think about all the things that need to get done. Take a shower, make coffee, eat breakfast, brush my teeth, go to work, etc... It's almost as if at the end of the day I can truly ask myself, "where did the day go?" Enough of these and I can ask myself the same questions in weeks, months, or even years!
The Voiceless
WE count the broken lyres that rest
Where the sweet wailing singers slumber,
But o'er their silent sister's breast
The wild-flowers who will stoop to number?
A few can touch the magic string,
And noisy Fame is proud to win them:
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
How Do You Define Happiness?
I ran a contest in "Your Daily Dose of Happiness" to see how people define happiness. I was stunned to discover that I am the only person who defines happiness as an extra helping of cheesecake.
Conditions of Happiness: Happy vs. Unhappy - Do We Have A Choice?
Everyone is in the process of seeking greater happiness. We are each involved in the search for feeling good inside our bodies. What may come as a surprise is in the midst of a binge, anorexia, bulimia, or other addiction process, happiness is essentially at the core of what is being sought. The individual is experiencing some feeling of unease in their emotional state and physical body and is attempting to seek an alternative state of feeling better.
Choosing Happiness
Did you know that it's up to you?
5 Keys to Understanding Why Your Life (probably) Sucks! #3
The outcome of Reason # 2 is that you become your own
worst enemy. That, in turn, leads on to Reason # 3 where
Ten Ways to Eliminate Guilt From Your Life
1. Say "Yes" Only When You Want To
Shhhhh?
Like enough of the noise awready! Geesh, people?
Choose To Be Happy
What if I told you that you have the ability to decide if you are happy or not. You would probably say that I'm crazy. 1. I'm not crazy and 2. Happiness is a choice.
About Happiness and Fulfillment
During a FULFILLMENT seminar, at the University of Arizona for the Affiliated Women's Clubs, a charming and successful woman unintentionally made our point about success, satisfaction and happiness. Catherine Hendricks spoke about several major problems that are caused by living too secular a life-style in this period of swift, destabilizing and often disconcerting change. Catherine lamented;
Does Money Buy Happiness?
According to researchers like Martin Seligman, Daniel Kahneman and Ed Deiner, money may be able to buy happiness, but only to a very limited extent. On the other hand, not having money - that is, a family income of less than 30,000 a year - is related to less happiness. But luckily, once your basic needs are being met, the increase in happiness from say, $31,000 to $131,000 a year, is really not that great! Hard to believe, isn't it? Think of all of the time and energy we spend trying to attain more money, and it really doesn't make that big of a difference! The United States is a very rich country, but the overall level of happiness there is lower than in many poorer countries. So, the question is, if money can't buy happiness, what can? Things that are hard to buy.
You...Your Emotions...Your Relations...Your Happiness and Your Life...
We are living in an era, where relations' management is at its low. If the IT or ITES/BPO industry is promoting relations among the employees?the short duration of relations is also a gift of it. There are numerous cases of divorces, I have witnessed in last couple of years, wherein couples decided to separate within one year of marriage. Why so???
May the Budgie of Happiness Sit on Your Head
My grandmother, Mimi, was a great solitaire player. My family legacy is mainly memories, so I especially cherish my few tangible mementos. Especially a photograph of Mimi, when she was in her mid-70's, sitting at the kitchen table, solitaire game in progress and a small green "budgie" (aka parakeet in this country) atop her head.
Uncover Emotional Secrets and Live a Happier Life
Can you remember a time when you became a little irritated with someone and made a sharp comment that may have hurt, one which you later regretted? Have you ever writhed in the pain of emotional agony over some loss or missed opportunity? Do you recall a time when you felt so overwhelmed by emotion that you withdrew from everything and everyone? In any of these cases to a lesser or greater degree the emotional part of your brain has produced a questionable response or perhaps a response that you may have regretted later.
See for Yourself : 12 Step Tools Can Bring Happy, Joyous and Free into Everyones Life
We are all familiar with or have heard of the many Twelve Step programs and communities. The reason the 12 Steps are so effective in helping people create happy, joyous and free lives is because it is a program of solution based on principles written so simply that anyone can use them in their daily lives. As partly a Sober Living Coach, agapelegacycoach.com I team up with clients who already have a strong recovery foundation to transition from recovery into enhanced Sober Living. I also coach those who wish to craft and design Legacies of Excellence in all areas of their lives who are not familiar with 12 Step Living. In my coaching career, all of my clients have shared many successes by allowing me to bring them some of the indispensable tools I have come to live by as a proud member of the 12 Step Community myself. Here are some proven effective 12 Step Community tools to add to your toolbox:
5 Keys to Understanding Why Your Life (probably) Sucks # 4
We are in constant competition
OBSCURED (Angel)
Being raised in a household without a mother or a father can be traumatic for a young girl. If no one cares enough about you to come into your life to "finish" or offer guidance where your parent(s) left off, you are a lost soul.
Suffering and Happiness
The one feature that sets life on Earth apart from a paradise is suffering. It poses a problem for humanity and calls for a solution. This problem relates to human desires, the satisfaction of which is often difficult and uncertain, if not impossible, and always transient, in need of renewal; it is doomed to end sooner or later in death.
Inner Peace
Are you content and at inner peace?
Being Happy
How can one be happy? Is it a tough question? To some it may be but not to all of us.
|
