True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems,but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.
Interpretation
True happiness is about changing how we think about our problems, viewing them as opportunities for growth.
This quote emphasizes that happiness is not the absence of problems but rather a shift in perspective about how we view challenges in our lives. By recognizing our problems as chances for awakening and personal development, we can cultivate a deeper sense of contentment and fulfillment.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience, you might say, 'Remember, true happiness comes not from avoiding problems, but from changing how we relate to them.'
Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.
Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.
If, however, you take a moment to observe how you actually feel immediately after you criticise someone, you'll notice that you will feel a little deflated and ashamed, almost like you're the one who has been attacked. The reason this is true is that when we criticise, it's a statement to the world and to ourselves, "I have a need to be critical." This isn't something we are usually proud to admit.
Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you would rather be, you begin to find peace right now, in the present. Then, as you move around, try new things, and meet new people, you carry that sense of inner peace with you. It's absolutely true that, "Wherever you go, there you are.
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish.
I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.
Excitement radiates through your eyes, your face, your voice, your soul, and your whole personality.
Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers. For me happiness was to share singing, praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes. I ask forgiveness for my bad ways: my life had no use on earth.
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
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