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Monday, July 07, 2008
You Make Your Own Happiness.
Abraham Lincoln said that people were just about as happy as they made up their minds to be. You can be happy if you want to be. It is the easiest thin in the world to accomplish. Just choose unhappiness. Go around telling yourself that things are not going well, that nothing is satisfactory, and you can be quite sure of being unhappy. But say to yourself, “Things are going nicely. Life is good. I choose happiness”, and you can be quite sure of having your chose.
To a large extent many of us make our own happiness by our thoughts and attitudes. Anyone who applies the right formula may become a happy person.
In a train journey, I sat opposite a father and daughter who are strangers to me. Obviously the girl’s manners where unpleasant and her complaints frequent. She found the train service terrible, food not fit to react. I noticed, however, that she ate the food and enjoyed it.
Her father looked at me. “My daughter”, he said “is in the manufacturing business.”
“What does she manufacture”? I asked curiously.
“Un happiness”, he replied, “She manufactures her own unhappiness”. His explanation describes exactly what most people do –they manufacture their won unhappiness.
It is pity that life itself provides enough problems to dilute our happiness. It is foolish to add to the difficulties further unhappiness with our own minds. We manufacture our own unhappiness by entertaining unhappy thoughts. Perhaps you feel that other people are getting what they do not deserves and you are failing to get what you do deserve. That belief produces envy, self-pity and resultant misery. How then we proceed to make for ourselves happiness?
Our happiness or unhappiness depends to an important degree upon the habit of mind we cultivate. Develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast, i.e. you can enjoy life every day. Out of the happiness, habit comes a happy life. And because we can cultivate a habit, we have the power to create our own happiness.
The happiness habit is developed by simply practicing happy thinking. Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times a day. If an unhappy thoughts should enter your mind, immediately stop, consciously eject it, and substitute a happy thought. Every morning deliberately drop happy thoughts into your conscious mind. Such thoughts will help cause events to turn out that way.
The reason can be directly traced to the manner in which you began the day in your thoughts. A few such remarks as the following can help; “ I believe today is going to be a wonderful day. I believe I can successfully handle all problems that will arise today. I feel good, physically, mentally, and emotionally. It is wonderful to be alive. I am grateful for al that I have had for al that I now have, and for all that I shall have. God is with me n He will see me through”.
One of the most simple and basic of good principles is that of service to poor, sick and suffering men and women. It is amazing that happiness turns into a sincere expression of compassion and friendly helpfulness.
“Where love is”, Said Tolstoy, “God is”, and we might add, where God and love are, there happiness is .So, a practical principle in creating happiness is to practice love.
Expect little , give much, When we give, we expect at least an equal return. But if we make a habit of giving more than we get, we will find ourselves enjoying life more. It really works out that way. Do not think about getting your mother to do something for you; think about what you can do for her. And do not do this today only but every day.
Thus , having changed inwardly, you will begin to create happiness of such quality that you will wonder if you are living in the same world.
This is the secret of happiness. Get this experience and you will get real happiness, the best world can offer.
An Aspirant
A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in the boat. An aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.


Where does real life end and virtual life begin? The line is on on…
Samrat is a 26 yr old HR professional. On a regular day he reaches office around 10 am and logs in, going into various online communities and chat-rooms. He leaves office around 6:30pm and logs in as soon as he reaches home. He is online almost as long as he is awake. Samrat is only one of the numerous people who live more in the virtual world than in the real one around them.
Samrat knows that.” Life is hectic and it’s very difficult for me to visit and call up my friends on a regular basis. It is far easier to keep in touch with them on line, since most them are on line too. But it is true that the virtual world is becoming very real for us. We are moving away from the world around us.” he says.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………Courtesy Telegraph
I Derive Joy
There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 5 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the ten minutes joy that I derive from? I am not robbing you of your joy; why should you rob me of mine? He asked. The critics were silenced. –Baba- Chinna Katha
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