Are you happy for what you are today? If you had a choice, which of the following would you allow to control your happiness? A) Other people. B) Events and circumstances beyond your control. C) You. The answer of course, is C. If you aren't happy, you may be allowing other people, and events and circumstances beyond your control to drive your happiness. But why would you do that?
Because you may not know that happiness is a choice and you've decided to let happiness find you instead of you finding happiness. Sure, your brain does a great job of running your heart, lungs, etc., but it can't control its own thoughts, which is really what drives happiness (but you can).
All the happiness you could ever want is already within you and costs nothing. By digging through the noise and minutia of everyday life, you will see tiny glimpses of the spiritual God-source from which all happiness emanates--the very joy of being.
Happiness is when you've gotten really good at being you.
Your first purpose for living is your own happiness. When you've achieved that, you'll automatically fulfill your second purpose--the happiness of others.
Just as letting others control your happiness is a mistake, so is placing the happiness of others on yourself.
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.--Ben Franklin
If it suddenly dawns on you that you are pretty happy, you're much happier than that. Comparison more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.--Thomas Fuller
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.--William Hazlitt
When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.--Helen keller
-raziftoha-
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