To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.
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Sometimes pain makes us more self-aware in valuable ways.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
As you identify less and less with the 'me,' you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of …
Just a few days ago a man came to see me and he said, 'I am a humble man. I am just like the dust on your feet. I have been trying for almost twenty years to a…