Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it,
strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the
world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the
manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state
of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must
make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness
forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
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This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual
ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for
our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to
haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all
need such places of ritual safekeeping.
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You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you
select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you
want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's
the only thing you should be trying to control.
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We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
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