Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.
There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.
There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all.
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.
Happiness does not mean that everything works out. Usually nothing works out, but you get a kick out of it anyway.
Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.
Happiness does not come from external things as we're really taught as children. It doesn't come from Santa Claus. Happiness is from within your mind. Just realizing that will change your whole life.
Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will come for longer periods of time. Eventually you will be happy all of the time.
Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.
Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness
Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's what you can give.
There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?
Love is the only antidote for the insanity of this world. And the funny thing about love is that when someone loves you, it doesn't necessarily make you feel better; but when you love someone else, it does.
Love is light in the inner worlds; it is energy, a luminescent energy that is the basis of all creation. Love is the only thing in this world that is worthwhile because it is the only thing in this world that is eternal.
Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.
Focus on beauty all day long. Realize how incredibly beautiful your life is. How incredibly beautiful it is to feel, to look around, to be, to experience all this wonder.
You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.
Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.
When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.
Tragedy is the violation of love.
The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.
Love has very little to do with a person. It comes from us. You can love a surprisingly great number of people.
Relationships are a proving ground for love.
Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.
When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.
