Jñānāgni » happiness http://jnanagni.com The Fire of Wisdom Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:46:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Einstein's practical wisdom http://jnanagni.com/2009/03/einstein-practical-wisdom/ http://jnanagni.com/2009/03/einstein-practical-wisdom/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:45:25 +0000 Srini http://jnanagni.com/?p=186

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly trustworthy physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we are like shipwrecked people on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whither they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment.

It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service … Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

— Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you’ll be a success.

— Albert Schweitzer

In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy—one is happy and, hence, does something. One does not do some things in order to be compassionate, one is compassionate and, hence, acts in a certain way.

— Conversations with God

Your effort to smile and laugh is making you cry and weep. You are doing the opposite. There is nothing you need to do. Just smile and laugh. Life has no purpose, no mission. It is a game. It’s a play. Life has no message. Life itself, is an expression of joy.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, God Loves Fun

Doing is a function of the body. Being is a function of the soul. The body is always doing something. Every minute of every day it’s up to something. It never stops, it never rests, it’s constantly doing something.

The soul is forever being. It is being what it is being, regardless of what the body is doing, not because of what it’s doing. If you think your life is about doingness, you do not understand what you are about.

— Conversations with God

So, don’t try to do something to make yourself happy. Just be happy, just Be, everything else follows. :)

]]> http://jnanagni.com/2009/02/just-be-happy/feed/ 3 J. Krishnamurti on simple life http://jnanagni.com/2008/10/j-krishnamurti-on-simple-life/ http://jnanagni.com/2008/10/j-krishnamurti-on-simple-life/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:49:34 +0000 Srini http://jnanagni.com/?p=116 “Simple life does not consist in the mere possession of a few things but in the freedom from possession and non-possession, in the indifference to things that comes with deep understanding. Merely to renounce things in order to reach greater happiness, greater joy that is promised, is to seek reward which limits thought and prevents it from flowering and discovering reality. To control thought-feeling for a greater reward, for a greater result, is to make it petty, ignorant and sorrowful. Simplicity of life comes with inner richness, with inward freedom from craving, with freedom from acquisitiveness, from addiction, from distraction.”

~ J. Krishnamurti, 2 July 1944

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