We seek happiness in our mother and father before we can speak, but when they cannot understand our cries, we suffer.
We seek happiness in our possessions, but when they break or get stolen, we suffer.
We seek happiness in friendships and marriage, and we find our flaws in others, and we suffer.
We seek happiness in sex, but happiness is not found in a spasm, so we suffer.
We seek happiness in religion, but happiness is not found in buildings, hierarchy or structure, so we suffer.
We seek happiness anywhere we can find it.
Perhaps happiness is not found in seeking, but expression.
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Did you write this?? Wow. Nice.
IMO Happiness is a temporary state of being strongly influenced by external experience. Joy and contentment are more permanent states of being that are internal. A person looking for either of these things externally will wander a long time. If you aren't content and have no joy, searching for happiness would be maddening. Joy and contentment enable us to react with happiness to the things that occur around us.
Seeking pleasure is rarely satisfying in the long run. But if you are satisfied regardless of your circumstances, imagine the opportunities for happiness (pleasure).
Agreed Matt. We can define happiness in lots of ways. I'm using it as a general term for lack of suffering.
We can't enjoy or express what we don't have, and as long we are seeking we don't have it. But the truth is: We can quite seeking because we already have "it".
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