The Happiness Recipe
Is there a happiness recipe for humans? The five major happiness ingredients
are: love, forgiveness, gratitude, compassion,
and letting go.
Self-Intuitive Questions
Can you love someone you don’t like or
who doesn’t like you, someone who doesn’t share your views—even though they are
not bad or evil individuals?
Can you forgive someone who has hurt
you, physically or emotionally?
Can you express your gratitude by not
complaining this and that, by not comparing yourself with others concerning
your lack or abundance?
Can you show compassion to those who
are less fortunate than yourself with a charitable mindset and a generous
heart?
Can you let go of anger, regret,
vengeance, or your material possessions that define who you think you are?
Happiness is about doing—doing
things to yourself as well as to others, based on the five major ingredients.
In addition to choosing the
ingredients, you should know the methods of applying those
ingredients to your recipe. There are basically only two: human wisdom,
and spiritual wisdom.
Human wisdom shows you how to think:
who you really are, not who you wish you were; how and why your perceptions may
change the realities that ultimately affect your life choices and decisions,
making you happy or unhappy. Happiness is no more and no less than perceptions
by the human mind. Human wisdom is right thinking, leading
to right doing to create the happy life experiences.
Spiritual wisdom provides strength and
guidance for right thinking by the human mind. Spiritual
wisdom may not only transform but also enlighten you to become a better and
happier individual.
Bottom line: even with profound human
wisdom and with the help of spiritual wisdom, no individual can be completely
good and happy, because humans are imperfect. So, there is no perfect recipe
for human happiness.
Stephen
Lau
Copyright© by Stephen
Lau
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