Nature is not something to conquer, but something to learn from or to merge with and be part of - to dance with, celebrate.
You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind.
Power doesn't make you happy. Actually, power without knowledge and balance is problematic. Power is something that will automatically follow when you have knowledge. The two are really the same, in a certain sense.
How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.
The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.
Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.
Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is like focusing on happiness for several hours as you are walking around.
Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.
Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.
It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.
Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile.
Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.
Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right in front of you, and it's great.
Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?
To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.
The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since all of us do from time to time.
Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of.
Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.
You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."
Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.
Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth.
Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.
Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.
Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.
My god, life is beautiful! Look at the colors! if you are blind, look at the colors of your mind.
