Happiness

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
Chuang-tzu

They say that happiness is like a butterfly; if you go chasing after it, it will elude you, but if you just sit and rest, it will alight gently on your shoulder. Do you yearn for happiness. Perhaps you beleive that if you just had more money, it would make you happy. Perhaps you beleive that if you just had a better relationship, it would make you happy. Perhaps you beleive that if you just had better health, it would make you happy. In all of this, you are saying that you beleive that happiness is something you don't have now, something that you need to do something before you can have it. You are chasing after happiness, and that is why it continues to elude you.

Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness. It is realizing that happiness comes from within. Happiness is something you already have, but you can't see it because you are too busy noticing what you don't have, whether it's more money, better relationships or better health. Once you start appreciating what you already have, focusing on the good things you have now instead of the things you wish you had, then you will find the happiness you seek.

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