Look within—the rising and the falling. What happiness! How sweet to be free. Buddha brings a totally new vision of meditation to the world.
Category Archives: Happiness Mantra
A woman listening to Jesus is moved to exclaim: “Happy is the womb that carried you and the breasts that nursed you!” Jewish women hoped to be the mother of a prophet, particularly of the Messiah. So this woman might think that Mary can be especially happy as the mother of such a teacher. Yet […]
Human happiness comes in different shapes and sizes, like candies at the store. American Psychologist Martin Seligman proposes that there are three types of happiness, the kind derived from a Pleasant Life, an Engaged Life, and a Meaningful Life. Let’s see what he means by each one of these. a. Pleasant Life Pleasant life is […]
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
To straighten the crooked you must first do a harder thing—straighten yourself
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
Live in joy, in peace, even among the troubled.
The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom
Do what you have to do resolutely, with all your heart. The traveler who hesitates only raises dust on the road.
Mischief is yours. Sorrow is yours. But virtue also is yours. And purity. You are the source of all purity and all impurity.