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Casey B. Head's avatar

Most of us would be better off if we stopped trying to be happy and just tried to be useful.

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C.M. Cardinale's avatar

Interesting point. Just a couple of days ago, I heard that Leo Tolstoy came to approximately the same conclusion during his life, forsaking his inherited aristocratic lifestyle for something much simpler and trying to help others. (This is second-hand info, but could be verified.)

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essie's avatar

“The pessimist is an unobservant man, mistaking lack of belief for confidence.”

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Derek Beyer's avatar

I love this. "One must believe that another world is possible, then go look for it." I've been calling it prefigurative belief. One must accept that you don't know what will happen, but pursue the possibility as if it will.

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Chiara Hamilton's avatar

I could not love this more!

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Rian Greeff's avatar

Faith without works is dead. Belief without action, similarly so.

Sometime we just need to cry out, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

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C.M. Cardinale's avatar

> It is the glory of God to conceal a thing:

> but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

I wish I understood what this concretely means.

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Joe Mize's avatar

Breathe

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Zippy's avatar

Yes we are creatures of temperament and most of what we do is driven by unconscious patterns of desire which are imprinted on us (as engrams) during our early child hood.

Furthermore we have all been here many times before and as such we all inherit a deeper personality vehicle which drives/determines much of what we do.

Eternal and total freedom, wisdom, and happiness are the primary needs and ideas of man both male and female

Always remember that your inherent heart-disposition wants and needs infinite, absolute, true, eternal happiness.

Sin is the active denial and suppression of that impulse

Happiness is the now-and-forever Mystery that IS the Real Heart and the Only Real God of Every one.

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matthew thomson's avatar

Beautiful rousing start to my day Thankyou

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Cole Calfee's avatar

Excellent

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