How to find True Happiness!

Written by Carl Cholette


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 berepparttar aim of all, and particularly so of those who wish to lessenrepparttar 122799 misery ofrepparttar 122800 world. If anyone has failed to lift himself above ungentleness, impurity, and unhappiness, he is greatly deluded if he imagines he can makerepparttar 122801 world happier byrepparttar 122802 propagation of any theory or theology. He who is daily living in harshness, impurity, or unhappiness is day by day adding torepparttar 122803 sum ofrepparttar 122804 world's misery; whereas he who continually lives in goodwill, and does not depart from happiness, is day by day increasingrepparttar 122805 sum ofrepparttar 122806 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 whichrepparttar 122807 letter of Scripture may be, for it is inrepparttar 122808 process of becoming gentle, pure, and happy thatrepparttar 122809 deep, real and enduring lessons of life are learned. Unbroken sweetness of conduct inrepparttar 122810 face of all outward antagonism isrepparttar 122811 infallible indication of a self-conquered soul,repparttar 122812 witness of wisdom, andrepparttar 122813 proof ofrepparttar 122814 possession of Truth.

A sweet and happy soul isrepparttar 122815 ripened fruit of experience and wisdom, and it sheds abroadrepparttar 122816 invisible yet powerful aroma of its influence, gladdeningrepparttar 122817 hearts of others, and purifyingrepparttar 122818 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 becomesrepparttar 122819 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 arerepparttar 122820 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 isrepparttar 122821 rightful and healthy condition ofrepparttar 122822 soul, and all may possess it if they will live purely and unselfish.

Questions for the Game of Life

Written by Maureen Killoran


“If you could eliminate one day from your past so that you never had to live through it, what day would you erase?”

“If you could ask a single question of a dead relative, what would it be and of whom would you ask it?”

These questions come from a little book I’ve been reading as a way to beginrepparttar New Year. If. . . Questions forrepparttar 122798 Game of Life by Evelyn McFarlane and James Saywell (Villard, 1995) My partner and I have been playing it, one of us throwing out a question, and then both of us sharing responses.

Some questions are easy and fun: “If you hadrepparttar 122799 chance to make any one purchase that you passed up in your lifetime, what would it be?” (Ah, no contest! The set of antique china we found onrepparttar 122800 Oregon coast some 8 years ago but were too timid to buy.”

Others are a challenge: “If you could chooserepparttar 122801 very last thing you will see before death, what would it be?” (That took some reflection, but, although I’m not a gardener, what I think I’d most want to see is perfect, full-blown rose.)

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