SECRETS OF HAPPINESS

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Secrets of Happiness

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By Vadim Kotelnikov, Founder, The first-ever BUSINESS e-COACH for Innovative Leaders, 1000ventures.com

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."

Teachings by World's Gurus

West

"Happiness, if attainable at all, must be sought by reflection upon things that are remote from the impressions of sense."

- Plotinus (A.D. 204-270), the Founder of Neoplatonism

"Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative. Practical virtue brings only a secondary kind of happiness; the supreme happiness is in the exercise of reason, for reason, more than anything else, is man."

- Aristotle (B.C. 384-322)

"There is no such thing as happiness, for an unfulfilled wish causes pain, and attainment brings only satiety."

- Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them."

- John Stuart Mill

"Happiness is attained through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

- Helen Keller, 19th century deaf and blind activist

East

"A well guarded mind brings happiness. Those who are free from all worldly desires will attain Nirvana. Never covet what others have. It is deadly sin which grows away from all happiness. Learn to be happy with what you have."

- Buddha

"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."

- Confucius, (B.C. 551 - 479), Chinese philosopher and reformer

"The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness."

- The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, (born in 1935)

"Happiness is a continuous creative activity."

- Baba Amte (born in 1915), Founder of the "Sanctuary of Love", Anandwan, India

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Buddhism about Happiness

Everyone wants to be happy and no one wants to suffer, but very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. We tend to look for happiness outside ourself, thinking that if we had the right house, the right car, the right job, and the right friends we would be truly happy. We spend almost all our time adjusting the external world, trying to make it conform to our wishes. All our life we have tried to surround ourself with people and things that make us feel comfortable, secure, or stimulated, yet still we have not found pure and lasting happiness.

It is time we sought happiness from a different source. Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions. If our mind is pure and peaceful we shall be happy, regardless of our external circumstances, but if it is impure and unpeaceful we can never be truly happy, no matter how hard we try to change our external conditions. We could change our home or our partner countless times, but until we change our restless, discontented mind we shall never find true happiness.

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"There is not law of nature guaranteeing that mankind should be happy. Everybody can see that this is true of our life here on earth, but by a curious twist our very sufferings in this life are made into an argument for a better life hereafter. We should not employ such an argument in any other connection. If you had bought ten dozen eggs from a man, and the first dozen were all rotten, you would not infer that the remaining nine dozen must be of surpassing excellence; yet that is the kind of reasoning that "the heart" encourages as a consolation for our sufferings here below."¹

Bibliography:

"A History of Western Philisophy", Bertrand Russell, 1945

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