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Happiness is the absence of unhappiness.
Life doesn’t play tricks; it’s just hard sometimes. But even then we’re always given two choices: either do the best we can, take the pain, and drop the suffering, or suffer. Either way, life will still be hard.
life is harsh, it no longer takes you by surprise because you realistically expect a bit of harshness along the path.
When you open your eyes in the morning for that brief moment before the stream of thought commences and you look at the alarm clock—who is looking?
Who notices the sunshine outside before thought takes over and starts to narrate the day?
The more something matters, the more incessant thought will be left out of
In the modern world, most of the events we encounter represent a threat only to our psychological well-being or to our ego.
If a quality or a description that you can associate with yourself changes while you otherwise remain unchanged, then that quality isn’t you.
Even at the individual level, with the passage of time nothing is all bad.
For now, look beyond a single vantage point of a single snapshot of your own individual movie, and you will always find the good within the bad.
You might think the universe took the effort to get the road built and cars invented, get so many of them sold and have all of the drivers summoned up in that one road on that specific morning to annoy you. Of course, how else could it be when you’re the star of the movie?
Life, with all its might, blocked every other path, leaving her only one, and she followed it.
If you take exactly the same steps, you will always reach exactly the same outcome regardless of your expectations, frustrations, pressures, or joy.
Life is almost entirely made of positives.
We sometimes obsess about one thing that makes us unhappy, and we filter out any positive signals that could change our frame of mind.
