Quotes About Happiness

But to depend on another psychologically—to depend on another emotionally—what does that imply? It means to depend on another human being for my happiness. Think about that. Because if you do, the next thing you will be doing, whether you're aware of it or not, is demanding that other people contribute to your happiness.

attempt to understand the true nature of worldly feelings, namely, the feelings of self-promotion, self-glorification. They are not natural, they were invented by your society and your culture to make you productive and to make you controllable. These feelings do not produce the nourishment and happiness that is produced when one contemplates Nature or enjoys the company of one's friends or one's work. They were meant to produce thrills, excitement—and emptiness.

The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable. There is far too much God talk; the world is sick of it. There is too little awareness, too little love, too little happiness, but let's not use those words either. There's too little dropping of illusions, dropping of errors, dropping of attachments and cruelty, too little awareness. That's what the world is suffering from, not from a lack of religion.

Your life as it is now: nightmare. Every single thing you cling to and have convinced yourself you cannot be happy without: nightmare.

In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.

Has it ever struck you that you have been programmed by society to be unhappy, and so, no matter what you do to become happy, you are bound to fail? Most people are so brainwashed that they do not even realize how unhappy they are. It's only when they make contact with joy that they understand how depressed they have been.

For in the death of the ego is freedom, peace, serenity, joy.

Take a look at the society we live in. It is rotten to the core, infected with attachments. What is an attachment? An attachment is an emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.

To acquire happiness you don't have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired. Does anybody know why? Because we have it already.

but God would be much happier, according to Jesus Christ, if you were transformed than if you worshipped. He would be much more pleased by your loving than by your adoration.

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Now the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness—it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness; and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.

If you just enjoy things, refusing to let yourself be attached to them, that is, refusing to hold the false belief that you will not be happy without them, you are spared all the struggle and emotional strain of protecting them and guarding them for yourself.

What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head.

Once you've done that, consider the true nature of worldly feelings, namely, the feelings of self-promotion and self-glorification. They are not natural; they were invented by your society and your culture to make you productive and controllable. Those feelings don't produce the nourishment and happiness that comes about from contemplating nature, enjoying the company of friends, or loving your work. They were meant to produce thrills, excitement—and emptiness.

They are controlled, so manipulated. They are unhappy people, they are miserable people. They don't enjoy life. They are constantly tense and anxious. Do you call that human? And do you know why that happens? Only one reason: They identified with some label. They identified the "I" with their money or their job or their profession. That was their error.

Segunda verdad: ¿de dónde te vino ese apego? No naciste con él, sino que brotó de una mentira que tu sociedad y tu cultura te han contado, o de una mentira que te has contado tú a ti mismo, a saber, que sin tal cosa o tal otra, sin esta persona o la de más allá, no puedes ser feliz.

llegamos a la cuarta verdad, que te lleva a la inevitable conclusión de que ninguna cosa o persona que no seas tú tiene el poder de hacerte feliz o desdichado.

se esfuma tu capacidad de llevar una existencia alegre, despreocupada y serena. Comprueba cuán verdadero es esto si lo aplicas al apego que has elegido.

Mejor dicho: experimentas un instante de placer, que en modo alguno constituye la felicidad, porque viene acompañado de un difuso temor a que, en cualquier momento, ese mundo de cosas y personas que con tanto esfuerzo has conseguido construir escape a tu control y te llene de frustración, que es algo que, tarde o temprano, acaba siempre por suceder

But what you're really telling me is that you want to be desired. You want to be applauded, to be attractive, to have all the little monkeys running after you. You're wasting your life. Wake up! You don't need this. You can be blissfully happy without it. Your society is not going

Primera verdad: estás aferrado a una falsa creencia, a saber, la de que sin una cosa o persona determinada no puedes ser feliz.

Segunda verdad: si te limitas a disfrutar las cosas, negándote a quedar apegado a ellas, es decir, negándote a creer que no podrás ser feliz sin ellas, te ahorrarás toda la lucha y toda la tensión emocional que supone el protegerlas y conservarlas.

Si tienes mil platos favoritos, la pérdida de uno de ellos te pasará inadvertida, y tu felicidad no sufrirá menoscabo. Pero son precisamente tus apegos los que te impiden desarrollar un más amplio y más variado gusto por las cosas y las personas.