SIX INSPIRING AND ENLIGHTENING QUOTES ABOUT THE HEART OF HAPPINESS
These quotes affirm that “ happiness is an inside job” that we can all attain when we understand and practice the art of happiness through consciously directing our own minds and thoughts….
THE DAWNING LIGHT, Volume 7, Issue Number 458
SPIRITUAL SOUP KITCHEN Section Number 45
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
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The Art Of Happiness Is An Inside Job
Every one of us wants to be happy as much as possible in our lives, yet we have all learned how easy it is to be unhappy and happiness often seems like an elusive goal that seems to come and go just beyond our grasp.
One of my own greatest breakthroughs after years of battling depression and chronic unhappiness was being with my teacher Kalu Rinpoche and other meditation masters who taught that we can attain lasting happiness once we understand what causes suffering and how to become free from unhappy states.
My teachers were all living demonstrations of the potential for not only enjoying peace of mind and expanding happiness, but of attaining that state permanently…and then going even further to attaining joy and bliss. They were always happy, content and present.
I have selected these quotes as testaments to the journey of possibilities.
Abraham Lincoln battled to overcome dark moods through his early life, and wryly remarked to his friends, “I have observed that most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
In Ancient Greece the pursuit of happiness was one of the foundations of their philosophy of life. Epictetus expressed the essence of their approach when he said, “there is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond the power of your will.”
SIX INSPIRING AND ENLIGHTENING QUOTES ABOUT THE ART OF HAPPINESS
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OUR HAPPINESS IS IN OUR HANDS If you want to be sad, No one in the world Can make you happy. But if you make up your Mind to be happy, No one and nothing on earth Can take that happiness From you! Our happiness is in our hands— We are the creators of our life. —Yogananda
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HAPPINESS COMES FROM LOVE, GRACE AND GRATITUDE Happiness cannot be traveled to, Owned. Earned, worn or consumed— Happiness is the spiritual experience Of living every minute with Love, grace and gratitude. —Denis Whitley OPTIMISM IS A HAPPINESS MAGNET Optimism is a happiness magnet— If you stay positive, Good things and good people Will be drawn to you. —Mary Lou Retton
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THREE THINGS WE ALL NEED TO BE TRULY HAPPY They say a person Needs three things to be Truly happy in this world— Someone to love, Something to do, And something to hope for. —Tom Bodett HAPPINESS IS WHAT YOU THINK It isn’t what you have Or who you are Or where you are Or what you are doing That makes you happy or unhappy— It’s what you think about it. —Dale Carnegie BE GRATEFUL FOR THE GARDENERS Let us be grateful For the people Who make us happy— They are the charming gardeners Who make our souls blossom. —Marcel Proust
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A SPECIAL SHORT FILM FOR YOU ABOUT HOW AN ACT OF TRUST AND KINDNESS LED TO GREATER HAPPINESS AND A NEW LIFE
You will love this brilliant and touching film about the positive results of talking a leap of trust, having that trust challenged by your friends and the amazing positive results….
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A BEAUTIFUL, SHORT AND INSPIRING MOVIE ABOUT AN ACT OF TRUST AND KINDNESS LEADING TO HAPPINESS
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“Your greatest service to humanity is to attain your own Self Realization!” Ramana Maharshi
“When you change the way you think about things, and the things you think about change”
—Wayne Dwyer
“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.” —Ram Das