Happy For No Good Reason
Living Happier: A collection of thoughts exploring the path to happier living
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That happiness we are hunting for everywhere ...? It is to be found only in the Self, only within. Ignorance of this fundamental truth is the springboard of sorrow.
Janki Santoke • The Happiness Guarantee
A lot of meditation is just showing up for what we have, and there is joy in that. It’s diferent from the kind of happi- ness that comes from getting what you wanted. It’s a joy that doesn’t have a good reason. It’s a joy that allows you to be sad or upset, because you’re alive in the midst of it.
John Tarrant • John Tarrant : Articles
If you have a reason for happiness, then that happiness can be taken away. The person you love could leave, the job could stop being interesting. If you have a reason for loving life, what happens if that reason fails? With koans you may find that life and love are so strong and vivid that they can’t be explained or justified. Koans open a happines
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