Thursday, May 19, 2011

The origin of happiness

True happiness lies inside us. If you have heard this phrase too often, but never understood it, consider it again. Man looks for happiness everywhere, works tirelessly all his life in pursuit of lasting happiness, but in vain. Wars have been waged, but all the blood that flowed was unable to reveal a land of eternal bliss.

Real happiness resides in your own personality, in your own self. It can be discovered only through self-realisation. Instead of indulging in transitory pleasures in life, which bring only momentary happiness, we should look within and identify the primeval sources of happiness. What means most to us, what are the things that truly matter. Only then will we be able to find lasting happiness.