The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else – that is, that it is not with you.
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Your happiness is your gift to the world.
When you’re truly happy, you are being yourself.
First you believe, and then you see the Light. Next you go towards the Light. Soon you are IN the Light. Now you ARE the Light.
Meaning is not found in things; meaning is what you make of things.
To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn’t want in the first place. True happiness isn’t a thing or a commodity, it’s something you cultivate and share.
Contrary to popular belief, time does not heal, time does not fly, time does not do anything. Time has no consciousness. It does nothing for you. The key to happiness now is what you choose to do with your time right now. Are you, right now, making the most valuable use of your time? This moment is, after all, the time of your life. Your choices are what make each moment.
All the happiness, health, and abundance you experience in life comes directly from your ability to love and be loved. This ability is innate, not acquired.
Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it. D. H. Lawrence1.
You can only be held back by your past if you use it to reject yourself in the present. Your.
Love offers us the most perfect soil for growth.” Leo Buscaglia.
Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.
It also reflects a tendency in our society to focus on negatives. Doctors, for instance, study illness, not health. Business leaders analyse failure, not success. Economists study cost, not value. Philosophers mostly debate original sin, not original blessing.
I ask you to consider that the goal of your life is not just to find love; it is to be love. Love is the real work of your life.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” David Viscott.
Each of us is called to do something in the name of love, to make sure that humanity comes to understand itself and is able to choose love over fear.
All parents want their children to be happy, but so few parents talk about it.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so,” wrote Shakespeare. For example:.
John Steinbeck wrote in East of Eden: “The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears.
Love brings up everything unlike itself so that you can let go of fear and be the loving person you truly are.