"Every living creature wants to be happy. Whether it is money, power or sex, you seek it for the sake of happiness. Some people even seem to enjoy misery because it gives them happiness!
To be happy, you seek something. But despite getting it, you are not happy. A schoolboy thinks that if he goes to college, he will be more independent, free and, therefore, happy. When you ask a college student whether he is happy, he feels that if he gets a job, he will be happy. Talk to somebody who is settled in his job or business, and you may find that he is waiting to get a perfect soul mate to be happy. Then what? When he gets a soul mate, he now wants a child, to be happy. Ask those who have children, if they are happy. They respond that how can they relax until the children have grown up and have had a good education and are successfully settled on their own? Ask those who are retired if they are happy? They long for the days when they were younger.
All of one's life is spent in preparing to be happy someday in the future. It's like making your bed all night, but having no time to sleep in it. How many minutes, hours and days of your life have you spent being happy from within? Those are the only moments you have really lived life. Those were perhaps the days when you were a small kid, completely blissful and happy or a few moments when you were surfing, swimming or sailing or on a mountain top, living in the present and enjoying it.
There are two ways of looking at life. One is thinking: "I'll be happy after achieving a certain objective." The second is saying: "I am happy come what may!" Which one do you want to live by? Life is 80% joy and 20% misery. But you hold on to the 20% and make it 200%! It is not a conscious act, it just happens.
Living in the moment with joy, alertness, awareness and compassion is enlightenment. Being like a child is enlightenment. It is being free from within, feeling at home with everybody, without barriers.
Every act in life is an expression of happiness or an expectation of it. For the wise person, it is an expression, not expectation.
Don't judge and don't worry about what others think of you. Whatever they think, it is not permanent. Your own opinion about things and people keeps changing all the time. So why worry about what others think about you? Worrying takes a toll on the body, mind, intellect and alertness. It is like an obstruction that takes you far away from yourself. It brings fear, and fear is nothing but the lack of love. It is an intense sense of isolation.
Our breath is linked to our emotions. For every emotion, there is a particular rhythm in the breath. So, when you cannot directly harness your emotions, with the help of breath you can do that.
Relaxing through meditation and breathing exercises can handle this. When one is relaxed, one realizes that they are loved, and connected to everybody, and are a part of the whole universe. This will liberate you and the mind will completely shift. You will then find so much harmony around.
To find harmony, it is not as if you have to physically seek it by sitting somewhere for years. Whenever you are in love, your mind is in the present, you feel joyous. At some level, to some degree, everybody is meditating without being aware of it. There are moments when your body, mind and breath are all in harmony. That's when you achieve yoga.
Remembering happiness or craving happiness is past or future.
The Art of Living lies in the present moment. Happiness is in the present moment and it is your very nature
Happiness is something which has not left anyone untouched. We all know what happiness is. But it is very fragile. Now you are happy. Just one nasty phone call, are you still able to keep your happiness? One nasty phone call and your happiness is gone. Your happiness is fragile.
What is that that can make our happiness stronger? I call that Wisdom. When one accepts things and moves in knowledge then the happiness dawns in the mind. If wisdom cannot remove your misery and bring happiness, nothing else can. There is no happiness in the world which you cannot get by being on the path of wisdom, when you taste it everything else seems bitter
A beautiful combination -- of being happy and alert and focused at the same time -- can be experienced in spiritual life . The goal of spirituality is to bring such happiness which nobody can take away from you.
The highest level of happiness happens when the soul is united with the Divine. When there is no duality, no two, when you are in deep meditation, then you experience this innermost joy. It is only through inner silence can you bring out happiness and celebration in life.
Your difficulties appear to be very big, lift your eyes because you are only focused on yourself. If you lift your eyes up and look at others who have difficulties, you will suddenly feel your burden is not as bad as you thought earlier. If you think you have some big problem, look at people who have a greater problem. Suddenly, you will get confidence that my problem is much smaller, and I can manage it.
Look at your own life. In the past, you had many problems. They have all come and gone. Know that even this will go and you do have the energy and power to overcome it. You will get self-confidence by understanding and looking at your own past.
Be spontaneous. Spontaneity will come when you take a few minutes to go deep within yourself. There is nothing great in smiling when everything is normal, and when everything is going the way you want. But if you awaken the valor inside of you, and say, ‘Come what may, I am going to keep smiling’, you will notice tremendous energy, will rise from within you. And the problem is nothing; it just comes and disappears.
Have faith in a higher power. Do you know, in anger we usually say, ‘I give up.’ Without frustration or anger say, ‘I give this problem up, and I cannot solve it, let the Divine help me.’ And know that you will always be helped. Have the confidence that you will be helped. A power in the universe is going to help you.
What are you waiting for? Instead of preparing to be happy, be happy now and resolve to remain naturally happy. God is trying his best to see you happy. But God only helps those who help themselves.
So every day make a resolution. “Today, I am just going to be happy come what may. I will not let anything disturb my happiness. I am going to be contented, happy.”
Be Happy Now........This is Blessing and an Order.
Few Quotes of Guru Ji On Happiness
*Purity in heart, clarity in mind, sincerity in action and contentment
is the formula for happiness.
*When we see happiness in the happiness of others, that's when we will be truly happy.
*Happiness is when you want nothing, and you want to give. Where the wanting and desires end, when sharing begins, happiness is exactly there.
*Happiness is living in the moment with joy, awareness and compassion; being free from within, feeling at home with everyone without barriers
*If you follow fun, misery follows you. If you follow knowledge, happiness follows you.
*The magic is that a person who wants nothing will receive everything. Happiness is hidden by our wants.
*The real worship, the real prayer to God is to create happiness in others.
*Happiness is an idea, when you don't know it. When you know it...then you are it.
*I have given.. I have to receive is the way to sorrow. I have received... I have to give is the way to happiness. When you see your happiness in the happiness of others that's when you wil lbe truely happy.
