Happiness is not going to just happen. Sorry but it's true. You can't luck up on it, you can't hunt it down and capture it, nor will you gamble and get it. And no matter how powerful you think you are you still can't demand or command it. Happiness will give no credit to what happens around us. It is only a result of how we react to the stimuli around us. Happiness has to be made, it comes from preparation and conditioning, and most of all it has to be maintained. Like a fortress, you must defend the borders of your own happiness.
The quality of our lives is contingent upon the way that we learn to control our inner experiences. The challenge becomes, to act, not to react.
If we continue to do the easy in our lives, the easy becomes hard.
If we do the hard things daily they soon become easy.
Being selfless is hard at first, then it becomes second nature and when we are confronted with opposition we are at peace, because we know that we have been in harmony with the natural order of God. ( No peace= no God, Know peace=know God )
It's easy to find faults in others and to be unhappy of our circumstances regardless of how rich we may look or feel. It is usually those who have suffered the most that are the kindest, most optimistic. For they truly see their blessings.
Who has suffered the most. A person that looses a job, or a person that looses a company that employees others who in turn loose their jobs? True grace comes from the appreciation of the living spirit. The thanks for the special gift of life. Not just our own lives but all life.
We have to learn to be thankful in the diverse gratification, and we need to resist instant gratification. This may seem awkward until you try it, and even then it takes a year or so to get used to. But, you will find many blessings in the ability to resist temptation.
Acting without thought is reacting and you have no control over anything at that point. What's worse is that, all can witness it and your grace and charm go out the window.
No more pretty is as pretty does.
It only takes one mistake to foul a thousand achievements.
It is not for others though, it is for ourselves and when we live in harmony with others we find harmony in self.
The last thought on this will be;
" A human being is part of the whole,
called by us the "Universe". A part limited in time and space. We experience our ourselves,our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. this is a sort of delusion of our consciousness.. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, it restricts us to our personal
desires and to affection for a few people that are nearest to us. Our task is free ourselves from this prison." (Albert Einstein)
