happiness
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Where We Begin the Same
Strip away the noise—the status, the professions, the accents, the clothes, the backgrounds—and you will find that at the most basic level, every human being is the same. We all emerge into the world with the same fragile breath, the same need for warmth, the same hunger for love and recognition. At the foundation, we Continue reading
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The only Joy we can Store
We often use the words pleasure, happiness, and fulfilment as if they belong to the same family of emotions. But they are not siblings. They are more like distant relatives—occasionally meeting, occasionally overlapping, but each carrying a very different temperament. Pleasure: The Flash of Ecstasy Pleasure is intense, intoxicating, and unmistakably temporary. It arrives like Continue reading
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Are You Happy?
“What day is it?” asked Pooh.“It’s today,” said Piglet.“My favorite day,” smiled Pooh. In just a few lines, Winnie the Pooh gave us a lesson in mindful living that many of us spend our whole lives trying to understand. While the world worries about what happened yesterday or what might happen tomorrow, Pooh simply embraces Continue reading
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You Are Alive
If the breeze still moves you, if a sunrise still stops you in your tracks, if your heart skips a beat while looking at this strange, wonderful world—then take a breath and know this: you are alive. Not just breathing. Not just existing. Alive. We live in a world that demands proof of everything. Proof Continue reading
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Perception Shapes Reality
We are all creatures of habit. Our daily routines shape our lives, even if we don’t realize it. And what shapes our habits? Our thoughts. If our thoughts create our habits, does that mean our minds decide how our lives turn out? Take money as an example. A person who becomes rich through honest work Continue reading
