Whatever seems to be in the way of your happiness must be realized as being a part of the way or... you're going the wrong way.
Stillness is a higher, unshakable order of happiness and contentment that the mind - - stimulated by the pursuit or possession of its desired - - cannot imagine.
The first step in dismantling any dark negative state is to remember that it has no right to be living within you.
To think of joyful days past as the path to happiness makes sense only if we believe that the best way to satisfy our thirst is to study water!...
Question: In your various books and audio products, you often mention the idea that we should "want what Life wants, accept what God gives to us." Do you mean that we should not visualize what we would like to manifest for ourselves? Is that wrong to do? Is having expectations for a better journey in life an illusion? Answer: There is nothing wrong at all with visualizing what one wan...
The only way it's possible -- psychologically speaking -- to have the painful experience of feeling like someone, or something is standing between you and your happiness, is if you are inwardly divided.
Part I: Wholeness is the only True Happiness. Part II: You cannot escape your experience of life, but you can die to its continual recreation and be made New.
Real self-freedom is not achieved by filling ourselves to capacity with imagined sources of happiness, but in learning to empty ourselves of the imaginary self and its secret storehouse of sorrows.
If each moment is the secret field of all possibilities, then our greatest potential for happiness is realized in the field itself, and not within any one particular flower that grows there.
To wish against the success of another is to wish against our own happiness, because it's impossible to "want" unhappiness for someone else without first bringing that sorrow into our own heart.