"And you to whom...
... adversity has dealt the final blow, with smiling b*st*rds lying to you everywhere you go: Turn to! Put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain and like the Mary Ellen Carter, RISE AGAIN!... Though your heart it be broken or life about to end. No matter what you've 'lost', be it a home a love, a friend--like the Mary Ellen Carter, RISE AGAIN.""Happiness" is over rated. Most people think happiness can be gotten from a situation. The global situation sucks. When I look around at it, I disapprove. But it is as it is. So I surrender to that which I cannot change--and I am free. Freedom is not happiness. Freedom is detachment through forgiveness: Forgiveness is the awareness that even suffering is redeemed because those who are dreaming happy dreams never waken at all. "Nothing happens TO us. It all happens FOR (and AS) us."
Dreams seem real while they last. We can say no more than this about our life.
I would sooner be awake than "happy" but that awakeness also puts me in touch with a deeply felt serenity and "uncaused joy" that comes from within where I have met the Invulnerable Self.
Happiness is over rated. Men with full bellies do not aspire.
Lastly, people who slay themselves are not always in despair and many people slay themselves bit by bit daily because they are despairing and have not the courage to rend the veil. Things are very often not at all as they "appear". Mostly, when people look at things/each other, they see their own projected experience. We so admire our "reflections" and so much so that people even only look at the surficial meanings of words spoken and written. Yet there are always layers deeper for the one(s) who see(s) past their own visage.
Look deep. Reach deeper. Rise again.
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Inspirational as always, you truly are a very gifted and talented person, thank you so much for sharing with us.
your last paragraph,reveals how often we don't always see what is really there in front of us because our eyes are so often clouded and blinded by despairs of our own doing as we project our past experiences into moments yet to come, subconsciously bracing ourselves for disappointments and hope deferred, forcing us to live in a world that is not real but a figment of our own making and we wonder why we are so miserable and unhappy.
you are so right to encourage people to rend those veils that cover their eyes and hearts and to "Look deeper. Reach deeper and Rise again."
Happiness - is not over rated, as it depends of oneself.
Dreams - are real if you act.
Rise again and... again. Plan ahead. Per ardua ad astra.
Being a woman of bold and decisive maneuvers, I agree. We make luck and manifest destiny.
"A quitter never wins and a winner never quits."
of the way people truly are and how they describe themselves. I read profiles and just about every man claims to be overly happy
with no desire to have any drama in their life. When you talk to them you realize, "Nope not that happy. Yes, create drama themselves. I do not live in la-de-da-de-da land. I live in the real world which consist of challenges. Not drama. When you are attached to others, your children siblings issues arise.
If every day is not a roll in the hay,a jump in the pond and a march down main street beaming from ear to ear participating in a parade, does that mean you are unhappy. Life has ups and downs. Not every occasion in life is a celebration or a reason to grin from ear to ear. Thank God it is a circle that we survive the tears and the pain and get to enjoy the good times and be happy until the unexpected rolls in again. That's life love,happiness, sadness and joy.
I don't remember the movies name, but a part of the movie I do remember is this....they were about to go into battle and the one guy said to the general "aren't you afraid of dying ?" and the general looked at him and said "all men die, but how many truly live ?"....and if some part of that journey is spent being happy then you could consider your life well lived.
Perhaps one of the previous bloggers was right when he suggested that ignorance is bliss. Maybe we spend too much time intellectualizing everything and forget to live. As John Lennon so wisely said "life is what happens when you are busy thinking about tomorrow"