Quotes About Happiness

If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep you inner space clear.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.

People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness. They don't realize that what happens is the most unstable thing in the universe.

What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming.

When you accept what is, every piece of meat — every moment — is the best. That is enlightenment.

If there is nothing you can do, face what is and say, 'Well, right now, this is how it is. I can either accept it, or make myself miserable. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is. There is the situation or the fact, and here are my thoughts about it.

If you find the here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally...

Unhappiness or negativity is a disease on our planet. What pollution is on the outer level is negativity on the inner. It is everywhere, not just in places where people don't have enough, but even more so where they have more than enough.

You don't seek permanency where it cannot be found: in the world of form, of gain and loss, birth and death. You don't demand that situations, conditions, places, or people should make you happy, and then suffer when they don't live up to your expectations. Everything is honored, but nothing matters. Forms are born and die, yet you are aware of the eternal underneath the forms. You know that "nothing real can be threatened."3

Your mind is telling you that you cannot get there from here. Something needs to happen, or you need to become this or that before you can be free and fulfilled. It is saying, in fact, that you need time - that you need to find, sort out, do, achieve, acquire, become, or understand something before you can be free or complete. You see time as the means to salvation, whereas in truth it is the greatest obstacle to salvation.

the end justifies the means. But the end and the means are one. And if the means did not contribute to human happiness, neither will the end.

And it is from inner space, the unconditioned consciousness itself, that true happiness, the joy of Being, emanates.

How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now.

Don't ask your mind for permission to enjoy what you do.

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

Ne tražite sre?u. Ako je tražite, ne?ete je na?i, jer je traženje suprotnost sre?i. Sre?a uvijek vješto izmi?e, ali slobodu od nesre?e možete posti?i ovoga trenutka suo?avaju?i se sa stvarnoš?u, umjesto da o njoj izmišljate pri?e.

happiness and unhappiness are in fact one. Only the illusion of time separates them.

Then what is the relationship between something that you do and the state of joy? You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present, any activity that is not just a means to an end. It isn't the action you perform that you really enjoy, but the deep sense of aliveness that flows into

As long as a condition is judged as "good" by your mind, whether it be a relationship, a possession, a social role, a place, or your physical body, the mind attaches itself to it and identifies with it. It makes you happy, makes you feel good about yourself, and it may become part of who you are or think you are.

is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it

Las relaciones mismas no son la causa del dolor y de la infelicidad, sino que sacan a la superficie el dolor y la infelicidad que ya están en ti.

the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving.