HAPPINESS IS A BUTTERFLY
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~~ Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
People who feel that they are completely free are the happiest. Freedom and happiness are connected. Without freedom, we don’t have happiness. Without happiness, the freedom we have is delusional. Freedom and happiness are the same goal. Choose wisely. If you make the decision to be happy, you are making a decision to stop being unhappy. Happiness is an option and misery is an option. Try to go a whole day without blaming, shaming or complaining. Don’t allow any negative thoughts. If someone does you wrong, then have compassion for the pain that motivated them to go astray. Find at least one way each day to make another person happy.
Happiness is a state of mind, therefore the real source of happiness lies in the mind, not in external circumstances. If our mind is pure and peaceful, we shall be happy regardless of our external conditions. If our life is full of stress, problems and pain, we have let our mind run the show for far too long. It is time to learn how to shut off the mind and find peace inside. We cannot choose the events around us, but we can choose our reaction to them.
Meditation enables us to cultivate a peaceful state of mind that will bring us well being, and eliminate those feelings that are not peaceful. When your mind is quiet and peaceful, amazing things begin to happen. Train yourself to become sensitive and appreciative for all the miracles that occur for daily life to simply go on.
We at www.mysticaltalk.com want to be happy, and we believe in the power of meditation.
