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just because an idea is simple, it isn’t necessarily easy to follow.
“It is the wonderful paradox,” he continued, “that the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others.”
it’s not so much what you’re doing that makes you happy. It’s whether or not you’re being mindful of what you’re doing.
Two main true causes of happiness: first, the wish to give happiness to others, which Buddhists define as love, and second, the wish to help free others from dissatisfaction or suffering, which we define as compassion.
