happiness

“The Hindu scriptures speak of the body as a machine fraught with six delusive deficiencies: ‘It exists; it is born; it grows; it changes; it decays; and it is completely annihilated.’ Yet most human beings expect permanent happiness from this impermanent body.”
How foolish jealousy is! It kills the very thing it professes to love. Jealousy is self-love. If a man loves a woman truly, he will not be able to bring himself to destroy her happiness and love for him by taking her life and thus letting her go to the beyond filled with loathing for him that may last for incarnations.
Life force enters the body through the agency of an interested, joyous attitude - it doesn't respond to a half-dead will! Learn to perform all your duties with a courageous cheerfulness welling up from within you. Then, as you perform your daily activities, you will see that a flood of vitality will move through all your muscles and through your [Countinue reading...]
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened ~ Buddha
An act to make another happy, inspires the other to make still another happy, and so happiness is aroused and abounds. Thousands of candles [...]
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. [...]
We have to understand in a deep way that having what we truly want in life contributes to the general state of human happiness and supports others in creating more happiness for themselves.
Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a disciplined or undisciplined state of [...]
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Nearly every time you see the Dalai Lama, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. Even [...]
If you think only of yourself, only your own happiness, the result is actually less happiness.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.