Be a Happy Optimist!

If 
people are happy 

nobody 
can drag them 
into a war.  

~Osho

Osho was born Chandra Mohan Jain, the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant, at his maternal grandparents' house in Kuchwada; a small village in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh state in India.

Ego and the mind

According to Osho, every human being is a Buddha with the capacity for enlightenment, capable of unconditional love and of responding rather than reacting to life, although the ego usually prevents this, identifying with social conditioning and creating false needs and conflicts and an illusory sense of identity that is nothing but a barrier of dreams.  Otherwise man's innate being can flower in a move from the periphery to the center.

Osho views the mind, first and foremost, as a mechanism for survival; replicating behavioural strategies that have proven successful in the past. But the mind's appeal to the past, he said, deprives human beings of the ability to live authentically in the present, causing them to repress genuine emotions and to shut themselves off from joyful experiences that arise naturally when embracing the present moment: "The mind has no inherent capacity for joy. ... It only thinks about joy." The result is that people poison themselves with all manner of neuroses, jealousies and insecurities. He argued that psychological repression, often advocated by religious leaders, makes suppressed feelings re-emerge in another guise, and that sexual repression resulted in societies obsessed with sex. Instead of suppressing, people should trust and accept themselves unconditionally. This should not merely be understood intellectually, as the mind could only assimilate it as one more piece of information: instead meditation was needed.

Read more about Osho here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osho_(Bhagwan_Shree_Rajneesh)

What is happiness?

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, 

but a manner of traveling.”

~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

Margaret Lee Runbeck (U.S. author, 1905-1956) 
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Margaret Lee Runbeck first appeared in print a few weeks before her thirteenth birthday.  

For more reading, please visit:  http://runbeck.org/content/quotes-margaret-lee-runbeck

TRUE Wealth $?

True wealth

is what you carry

on the inside.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Happiness Pursued!

Happiness 
is like a butterfly 
which, 
when pursued, 
is always beyond our grasp, 
but, 
if you will sit down quietly, 
may alight upon you. 
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Be who you really are!

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; 
they try to have more things, or more money, 
in order to do more of what they want, 

so they will be happier. 

The way it actually works is the reverse. 
You must first be who you really are, 
then do what you need to do, 
in order to have what you want.

~Margaret Young

Happiness...

Happiness held is the seed;

happiness shared is the flower. 

~John Harrigan