or happiness!
Our perceptions about our lives are the outcome of many forces that shape experience, each having an impact on whether we feel good or bad. Most of these forces are outside our control. There is not much we can do about our looks, our temperament, or our constitution. We cannot decide - at least so far - how tall will we grow, how smart we will get. We can choose neither parents nor time of birth, and it is not in your power or mine to decide whether there will be a war or a depression. The instructions contained in our genes, the pull of gravity, the pollen in the air, the historical period into which we are born - these and innumerable other conditions determine what we see, how we feel, what we do. It is not surprising that we should believe that our fate is primarily ordained by outside agencies.
Yet we have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in the memory for what life should be like.
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I absolutely agree!
It is that feel when I am in the woods, touching the mist, listening to the birds, and wondering at the silence of a flowing river.
It is that feel when I feel what I wanted to feel.
It is that, what I can make it happen!
and, that is happiness!
Srik
1 comment:
some strong words there....
It is also true that the mind has that magical power to respond to these negative outside agencies.These agencies themselves create circumstances which pushes the otherwise "closed" mind to act upon .....
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