Hi
John,
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate
his happiness.”
Thank you
Blessings
True Happiness
The Rightful and Healthy Condition of the Soul
To maintain an unchangeable sweetness of disposition, to think
only thoughts that are pure and gentle, and to be happy under all
circumstances,- such blessed conditions and such beauty of character and life
should be the aim of all, and particularly so of those who wish to lessen the
misery of the world.
If anyone has failed to lift himself above un-gentleness,
impurity, and unhappiness, he is greatly deluded if he imagines he can make the
world happier by the propagation of any theory or theology.
He who is daily living in harshness, impurity, or unhappiness is
day by day adding to the sum of the world's misery; whereas he who continually
lives in goodwill, and does not depart from happiness, is day by day increasing
the sum of the world's happiness, and this independently of any religious
beliefs which these may or may not hold.
He who has not learned how to be gentle, or giving, loving and
happy, has learned very little, great though his book-learning and profound his
acquaintance which the letter of Scripture may be, for it is in the process of
becoming gentle, pure, and happy that the deep, real and enduring lessons of
life are learned. Unbroken sweetness of conduct in the face of all outward
antagonism is the infallible indication of a self-conquered soul, the witness
of wisdom, and the proof of the possession of Truth.
A sweet and happy soul is the ripened fruit of experience and
wisdom, and it sheds abroad the invisible yet powerful aroma of its influence,
gladdening the hearts of others, and purifying the world. And all who will, and
who have not yet commenced, may begin this day, if they will so resolve, to
live sweetly and happily, as becomes the dignity of a true manhood or
womanhood. Do not say that your surroundings are against you. A man's surroundings
are never against him; they are there to aid him, and all those outward
occurrences over which you lose sweetness and peace of mind are the very
conditions necessary to your development, and it is only by meeting and
overcoming them that you can learn, and grow, and ripen.
The fault is in yourself.
Pure happiness is the rightful and healthy condition of the soul,
and all may possess it if they will live purely and unselfish.
"Have goodwill To all that lives, letting unkindness die, And
greed and wrath, so that your lives be made Like soft airs passing by."
Is this too difficult for you? Then unrest and unhappiness will
continue to dwell with you. Your belief and aspiration and resolve are all that
are necessary to make it easy, to render it in the near future a thing
accomplished, a blessed state realized.
Despondency, irritability, anxiety and complaining, condemning and
grumbling - all these are thought - cankers, mind - diseases; they are the
indications of a wrong mental condition, and those who suffer therefrom would
do well to remedy their thinking and conduct. It is true there is much sin and
misery in the world, so that all our love and compassion are needed, but our
misery is not needed - there is already too much of that. No, it is our
cheerfulness and happiness that are needed for there is too little of that. We
can give nothing better to the world than beauty of life and character; without
this, all other things are vain; this is pre-eminently excellent; it is
enduring, real, and not to be overthrown, and it includes all joy and
blessedness. Cease to dwell pessimistically upon the wrongs around you; dwell
no more in complaints about, and revolt against, the evil in others, and
commence to live free from all wrong and evil yourself. Peace of mind, pure
religion, and true reform lie this way. If you would have others true, be true;
if you would have the world emancipated from misery and sin, emancipate
yourself; if you would have your home and your surroundings happy, be happy.
You can transform everything around you if you will transform yourself.
"Don't bewail and bemoan..... Don't waste yourself in
rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauties of the good."
And this you will naturally and spontaneously do as you realize
the good in yourself.
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