Happiness - Page 3

^^some people realize that no matter what acomplishment can be made is a past experience therefore whoever takes credit for it is taking credit for something that already happened. why should a person say that they're better than anyone?....If i do something you can do it to, you deny yourself the knowledge that's why you don't see yourself in the same position and that's what gives me the opening to say i'm better than you...when in truth i'm not, you're restricting yourself.

Happiness is inborn within us, we only lose it when we search for it......because in the end it's all about finding yourself again, and when you do you find all and are content with all....disagree?

its about finding yourself by which means creating reason truth and meaning

so happiness is an illusion once agian created by our perception

^^and when there's meaning, truth, and reason....then there is contentment, and where contentment is there's happiness.. the eternal kind...

sure but it's as i've stated previously.. subjective to the knower

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In a sense, finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness; you choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be, and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings YOU the most meaning and contentment in your life over the long run. Happiness is a state of being only you can create. Now, when it comes to basic living standards, money can influence happiness. Simply put, money makes a significant contribution in the lives and happiness of people who have little of it. But after the necessities are met, money seems to have little effect on our happiness. Money can be immediate gratification that may lead to pleasure but may also lead to unhappiness. According to Buddhist philosophy, Happiness is the ultimate goal in life. But if we want happiness, we can't get it by making it our ultimate goal but rather only one of our goals. The rest may incude self-less love, self-worth, and many other things that in the end, all result in the happiness of the specific individual.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs


after your basic physiological needs for food water then comes safety protection money security then belongingness and love followed by your own esteem and finally self-actualization where you realize your potential and contribute it..

this last phase will come and go..
like when you get out of high school you have to go all the way back down to the security stage with money..

then eventually work your way back up the ladder..

and so even when we can satisfy our needs we find that life just brings us back to the same ones......

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yes well stated wraith.. this is what makes us human and this is why we offen say life sucks..

did you ever notice that people complain about everything.. you can complain about having too much to do and before you know it you're complaining cuz you don't have a thing to do..

this is why we need to find a steady flow between anxiousness and boredom..

where we do what makes us happy and have no time to question the meaning of happiness..

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what is already balanced wraith? happiness.. is this why we have people killing themselves? that seems unbalanced to me..

there is nothing good about this world, it's driven by hate and fear, humans grow up adapting to this, therefore no one can truly be happy, and if they are it isn't real

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it is real but it will also go away