Written by Linn on Mar 23rd, 2008 | Filed under:
Be Happy
If you feel sad, change your feeling, it is because your situation didn’t give any better by you being sad. When you fail in your duty and you become depressed, did your depression change the fact that you failed?. You lost your business, and you became saddened, did this change your situation by transforming losses into profits?. You father passed away, and you became downhearted, did that bring him back to life?
If you become depressed because of poverty, and this only increased the bitterness of your situation. If you become despondent due to calamity, and by doing so, you created additional calamities.
You became gloomy because of what your enemies said to you, by entering into that mental state, you unwittingly helped them in their attacks against you. You became sullen because you expected a particular misfortune , and yet it never came to pass.
Sadness causes you to imagine poison when you are really looking at pure water, to see cactus, when you are looking at rose, to see barren desert when you are looking at a lush garden, and to feel that you are unbearable prison when you are living on a vast and spacious earth. So just do not be sad, happy and smile always
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Written by Linn on Mar 20th, 2008 | Filed under:
Be Happy
Among the greatest blessings is to have a calm, stable and happy. Happiness is an art that needs to be learned. If you learn it, you will be blessed in life. A basic principle of achieving happiness is you should neither be swayed nor governed by difficult circumstances , nor should you be annoyed by insignificant trifles. Based on purity of the heart and its ability to endure , a person will shine. When you train yourself to be patient and forbearing , then hardship and calamity will be easy for you to bear.
The opposite of being content is being shortsighted , being concerned for no one but one’s own self and forgetting about the world and all that is in it. This is a such people see themselves as being the whole universe, or at least at the center of it. They think not for others, nor do they live for anyone but themselves.
Basic to the art of happiness is to bridle our thoughts and to restrain them , not allowing them to wander, stray, escape, or go wild. If you were to leave your thoughts to wander as they wish , then they will run wild and control you . They will open the catalogue of your past woes . They will remind you of the history of your misfortunes , beginning from the day that your mother gave your birth.
If you thoughts are left roam, then they will bring to you images of past difficulties and images of a future that is frightening. These thoughts will shake your very being and will cause your feelings to flare. Therefore bridle them , and restrain them by directing them to the concentrated application of the kind of serious thought that begets fruitful and beneficial work.
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