Quotes About Happiness

If you continue to pursue the goal of salvation through a relationship, you will be disillusioned again and again. But if you accept that the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world. For

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out of present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love — even the most simple action.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they will also give you pain. Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they cannot give you joy. Nothing can give you joy. Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being.

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.

What you refer to as your "life" should more accurately be called your "life situation." It is psychological time: past and future. Certain things in the past didn't go the way you wanted them to go. You are still resisting what happened in the past, and now you are resisting what is. Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about

Paradoxically, 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, keep buying, keep consuming.

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.

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it. Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness.

Muchos viven con un torturador en la cabeza que continuamente los ataca y los castiga y les drena la energía vital. Esto causa sufrimiento e infelicidad así como enfermedad.

expectativas ilusorias de que algo o alguien en el futuro lo salvará o lo hará feliz.

Paradójicamente, lo que mantiene en marcha la llamada «sociedad de consumo» es el hecho de que intentar encontrarte a ti mismo a través de las cosas no funciona. La

The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.

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 your inner space clear.

You keep your unhappiness alive by giving it time. That is its lifeblood.

Buscan afuera mendrugos de placer o de realización para lograr la aceptación, la seguridad o el amor, mientras llevan dentro un tesoro que no sólo incluye todas esas cosas sino que es infinitamente mayor que todo lo que el mundo pueda ofrecer.

Los que no han encontrado su verdadera riqueza, que es la alegría radiante del Ser y la profunda e inconmovible paz que la acompaña, son mendigos, incluso si tienen mucha riqueza material. Buscan afuera mendrugos de placer o de realización para lograr la aceptación, la seguridad o el amor, mientras llevan dentro un tesoro que no sólo incluye todas esas cosas sino que es infinitamente mayor que todo lo que el mundo pueda ofrecer.

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

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

Wherever you are, be there totally. 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.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow, or it will leave you, so its absence will give you pain.

Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them — while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease.

It makes you happy, makes you feel good about yourself, and it may become part of who you are or think you are.