Date Posted: 1/12/2013 12:50:06 AM
Posted By: billgates Membership Level: Silver Total Points: 446
Many people don’t get the meaning of the word “happiness”. It is completely greek to them, for they have not known it or experienced it either. According to world’s renowned author-Samuel Aun Weor, who is also the founder of Christian Gnostic Movement, parties, bar hoping, drinking sprees and orgies are brutish pleasures, but they are not happiness.In this world of events, you might think that when you ultimately achieve all your goals, you will be somehow happy. But that’s not true. A young handsome man thinks that he will be happy the day he will get himself a BMW X5 car and a beautiful woman to accompany his life, or maybe a princess from “One thousand and One Arabian nights”, someone he thinks is a gift from heaven. Unfortunately, the ultimate reality of this world hit him hard on the head: a big family to support and a whole mountain of financial challenges. In fact as the kids grow, so do his problems. For instance, when he buys shoe number 3 for his daughter, he will buy shoe number 5 or 6 in the next 4 years because the feet are growing. That means more money to take care of them. Young girls, on the other hand, dream of getting the prince of their lives. They only realize it when reality starts to creep in, that indeed, they married tyrants. Their dreams are often to have a grand wedding party, a big house and family of possibly 4 kids, 2 daughter and 2 boys. Sometimes their dreams come true, they get what they expect, apparently, all things come to pass in the end. The children will eventually get married and leave the house. All of a sudden, the “prince”, who was once a handsome man is now full of wrinkles. Oh! What a wretch!Bottom line is this: happiness is never achieved through running away from reality. The real answer lies in evaluating “self”, not covering what is happening by soaking the “self” in alcoholic addiction, bang, cocaine or anything like that.Many people believe that happiness will come the day they will hit a jackpot. Indeed some have even scooped those millions of shillings in jackpots, what they experience is “brutish pleasures”, not continuous inner happiness. We see rich people getting into problems all the time, they are always filling lawsuits against their neighbors, they refrain from certain types of food because their doctors warned them not to take them, and their problems never seem to end. Your happiness does not depend on the loads of cash you carry in your bank account, it does not depend on tangible materials, but is has a far inner aspect that can only be achieved if you let go of your worries, sorrows and illness. The result of this is that which is timeless, beyond mind and our ability to understand. That, is what we call HAPPINESS.
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