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Today's
quotation:
So
what is happiness? I am sure this question will be asked through
the ages. And I doubt there is one answer for all people. Like heaven and
hell, one
person's happiness can be another person's unhappiness, which is why
I'm
not attempting to tell you what to do to find your happiness. I
have enough
trouble finding and hanging onto my own true happiness.
Robert Kiyosaki
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Today's
Meditation:
What a
good question: What is happiness? Many claim
that they're not really happy, but they haven't defined
happiness for themselves at all, so how do they
know? Is it possible that we're all pretty happy,
but because we've defined happiness as something that we
don't have or haven't reached, we think that we're
not? Could it be true that with just a slight shift
in perspective we'd find that we have all the elements
that we need to make us happy?
I've
known people who thought they'd be happy as soon as they
were married. Then they got married and started
finding things to stress out about, things that their new
spouse did that upset them, things about having a family
that made them frustrated or nervous or just plain
miserable. Years earlier, just the thought of having
the family made them feel comforted and sparked a yearning
in their spirits; now that they have it, they think that
happiness lies in something else-- like maybe not having a
family, or having a different family or spouse.
Life
is pretty good to us, and it's constantly giving us fodder
for happiness. And our choices in life put us in
positions to receive particular fodder-- as a teacher,
seeing students learn and grow makes me happy; seeing rain
fall makes me happy because I know how important water is
to everything; being married, seeing my wife and/or my
stepkids succeed in something or accomplish something
special brings me happiness, as long as I'm open to
accepting it.
I'm
happy that I have enough food to eat regularly, that I
have enough money to afford housing and clothing and even
some luxury items, that there are people in the world who
care for me and like my company, that I have fulfilling
work to do. Music makes me happy, as do snowstorms
and thunderstorms. There's so much to be happy about
that the list can be quite long, and we can easily start
with the little things that are very real contributors to
our happiness, as long as we make the effort and take the
time to rejoice in them.
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