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posted January 01, 2005 01:49 AM         

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I define happiness in 2 ways. 1st; happiness is either false, that is when you buy it expensively, and that turns into disapointment later. Then true happiness, when you don't pay for it. That one remains. I once adviced my friend, who was disturbed badly, trying to get cheared up in fancy places, yet unable to get over those troubles. I said, why don't you go out in the open air by the sea, take your sandwiches and beverage, a ball, and picnic there, and just let it out. That has done it.
2nd definition; 3 kinds of happiness, one turns into a bad feeling after the action, and that's when you get your pleasure on deception, and happiness that ends by the end of the action, like enjoying a good meal, and one that comes after hardship, and that one remains, like scoring in a match or test, or make your parents happy and hear them pray for you, or wondring into a beautiful building that you have built.

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posted January 01, 2005 09:00 PM         

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That's nice.
But I must say.. the sexy deep brown high boots I just purchased feel pretty darn good. I plan outfits around them. The only letdown is in when they will eventually scuff from overuse.

But don't get me wrong... watching my children play together beats boots anytime. But it'd be nice to watch them , serenely smiling, with my awesome boots planted firmly on the ground.

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posted January 02, 2005 01:18 AM         

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Pixelpixie, that's exactly what I thought. You'll worry for your boots, as much as you paid for it. We need material pleasure to help us buy moments, hrs or days of happiness, to fuel our minds to help us go on.
I love fancy furniture, I keep decorating, and redecorating, to feel good, and to have my husband, my girls live good.
As good as I feel at the moment, as eagre I turn later for change. Non-stop eagre. That's what made me feel I need a rest.
I grew up in a huge house full of antiquities. Once, when I was a child, my parents and I, visited a relative, who was living moderately, I asked mom, where's the rest of the house?
She wispered in my ears, that's it, so shut up.
I felt a major ache in my little heart. Till that wisdom poped in my head. I thought to myself; but they're happy, they laugh and play and have all the fun. GOD is fair, He made true happiness an issue one can't buy. One can obtain it from the simplest things. That's how this wisdom remained, I add to it as I go on.
You can not buy air, air is available for everybody, water is available for everybody, essencial food is available for everybody, as much as you need to survive.You only pay to have better food, to have better accomodations.Better food is available, but not as much as just food. Diamonds are very expensive. But who needs diamonds to survive.People race in the track of recognition, but let them not loose focus as they go. A fine human is the fine from the inside.

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posted January 02, 2005 01:21 AM         

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Do not exalt the worthy, so that people will not compete.
Do not value the treasure, so that people will not steal.
Do not display objects of desire, so that people's hearts will not be disturbed.
"Taotequing, Chinese wisdom"

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posted January 02, 2005 02:06 AM         

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My favourite Taoist lesson is the reed in the wind. If the reed is too rigid and fixed, it will break when the wind blows.. be like a reed, be flexible.
Such a simple, wise thing... I try to moderate my tendancies to be rigid, I try to become flexible, allow things and people to affect me but not break me in half with their 'wind', or be broken in half by my own inability to bend.
Hard for a woman with mostly fixed signs in her chart, but really, it is my lesson, and I learn it by living it.
I appreciate your story.

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posted January 02, 2005 02:35 AM         

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When you mensioned rigidity, you reminded me of the old saying: Don't be rigid or you'll be broken, nor soft, or you'll be folded. Another saying that belongs to an old arab ruler, long long time ago, he's called Moawya Ben Abi Sofian, we call the wisdom; Moawia's hair. He said; If there was a hair between people and me, it would never be cut. If they pull it I release, and if they release it I pull.
Seems nobody benifits from these old verses of wisdom no more.
Look around, and you'll see that it seems like a rigidity contest.
I miss kindness in people's eyes, as I miss dresses on women's bodies. I wish to wear a dress, but I will look awkward. If I do, they'll think I'm going to a party.Women wear straight jackets, safety boots, hair is short, "a la garcon" . What happened to feminanity????

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posted January 02, 2005 02:35 AM         

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I sound like a depressed person, but on the contrary, I'm funny, I seek fun and joy in my life. Now I'm glad 2004 is over.I hope 2005 will make it up for everybody.
We'll meet tonight in meditation for south Asia. My first group meditation.

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posted January 02, 2005 06:39 AM         

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in-tense happin-ness

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posted January 02, 2005 02:26 PM         

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I am enjoying the exchanges between you two...*sigh*...

I especially took note of this one...

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Do not exalt the worthy, so that people will not compete.

Do not value the treasure, so that people will not steal.

Do not display objects of desire, so that people's hearts will not be disturbed.

"Taotequing, Chinese wisdom"

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I am now reading THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI, by Paramhansa Yogananda....(free online, thanks to Noreenze for bringing it to our attention)....and I'm finding it totally fascinating....

There are also inspirational articles on his homepage, and I'm finding that so many of his beliefs are in sync with the teachings of the Brotherhood of the Lemurian Philosophy, which has served as a spiritual guide for me for many years (when I'm disciplined enought to apply it...)

I'm so glad you joined us Sawsan....

Love,
Rainbow

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posted January 02, 2005 03:04 PM         

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oops....wrong thread...

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posted January 03, 2005 12:47 AM         

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Happiness is knowing you were once unhappy, and glad you know it.

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posted January 04, 2005 06:17 AM         

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Wow

This thread remind me of that Gross International Happiness one again!
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum16/HTML/000404.html

To me it's also being awoken in a new thought pattern you've always wanted to understand; knowing yourSelf and being comfortable with that.
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
Aristotle

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posted January 05, 2005 01:00 AM         

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I happen to believe that the SELF is what you're stuck with in your trip of evolving thru the universe. The saul returns to where it belongs, the body remains here.
So you'd better be on good terms with your SELF.
I have a question here;
observing my uncle dying (from cancer), I guess he has read all the books that ever was, yet during his last month, he had his daughters read for him,taking shifts.
Does that prove you need all the knowledge you can get for another mission in another location in the univers??
I don't believe in reincarnation, but I believe we're located elsewhere, with all the knowledge and experience gathered in this life, launched up for another totally different role in the universe.

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posted January 05, 2005 01:21 AM         

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another question, based on lexigrams;
in Arabic, the word referring to this life in this world, is El Donya. This word when pronounsed by itself, you know it's this life, this world.
Yet it means the lowest, when for example you speak of the society levels, you say, the lowest class, the middle class and the high class.
Linda's lexigrams made me think, and believe that this life is our first, the lowest before we start evolving.
The rainbow has basicly 7 colors, to reach white.
maybe those colors could give a clue about the 7 skies, on your way to the whole WHITE, or the whole LIGHT.
You could now understand why all this violence, we're on the red level.
This level of unfairness will sure help us be applying fairness in our next level.
the violet plate is the higher one before the WHOLE WHITE.
This is my quest in life. Could you help???

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