There is essentially only one way in which you can bring about self-transformation - that's if you want to - but you will not think you need to if you are still taking your happiness from outside yourself.
As soon as your happiness is dependent on anything outside, you make yourself a slave to a condition, substance or perhaps a person.
A slave is not free. And happiness is impossible if you are not free.
Perhaps this goes some way to explaining why our happiness fluctuates. Real happiness does not go up and down. Real freedom means that your happiness comes from inside out.
That requires detachment and renunciation, not least from the illusions and conditioning of society which would have you believe happiness can be acquired from outside in.
Inside out, not outside in.
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Am really enjoying reading your quotes. This one is a good one and I think I will be checking out the website it came from.
I have just been looking for something I read at the weekend about happiness, and I can't find it, but it went somewhere along the lines of
People sometimes look too much for happiness, and don't acknowledge that life has it's highs and it's lows.
I know what you mean, J, like everyone is straining for perfection. When you come to understand there is good and bad, learn to take the rough with the smooth, it makes is easy to cope with the tough stuff. Yin and Yang baby.
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