“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” — Henry David Thoreau
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“Often, when we say, “I love you” we focus mostly on the idea of the “I” who is doing the loving and less on the quality of the love that’s being offered. This is because we are caught by the idea of self. We think we have a self. But there is no such thing as an individual separate self. A flower is made only of non-flower elements, such as chlorophyll, sunlight, and water. If we were to remove all the non-flower elements from the flower, there would be no flower left. A flower cannot be by herself alone. A flower can only inter-be with all of us… Humans are like this too. We can’t exist by ourselves alone. We can only inter-be. I am made only of non-me elements, such as the Earth, the sun, parents, and ancestors. In a relationship, if you can see the nature of interbeing between you and the other person, you can see that their suffering is your own suffering, and your happiness is their own happiness. With this way of seeing, you speak and act differently. This in itself can relieve so much suffering.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“We are part of nature. We are here to bloom like a flower-
to ornate the earth with beauty, love, joy, happiness, and care.” ― Debasish Mridha
“There is a powerful exercise, quite simple, which I began to use many, many years ago.
Who would I have met on the way, be it a person or an insect,
the first thought that I assume with respect to this point: “I wish you happiness! ”
But most importantly, that this idea was indeed the very first, “I wish you happiness.”
It completely changes on what is going on between you and that person.
I say this from personal experience.
Sometimes it’s very difficult when you meet the enemy
when you find yourself face to face with an unexpected tough situation …
And at this point you get an opportunity to create more space around you …
You see how it pops up this negative emotion, and before it will take “up” over you,
you have time to convert it … You see everything as it is:
that’s evident ignorance; anger – not that other, as ignorance from my side, from their side.
Convert him, let go, turn into love.
“I WISH YOU HAPPINESS!”
Try it and see how much everything will change in your life.”
~ Richard Gere
When you’re really happy,
the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights
— and flowers will bloom on a barren land. — Terri Guillemets
“The path to your dreams is rarely linear. You gotta zig zag your way to happiness”.
Karen Salmansohn