Hidden Happiness
This is a story or an anecdote I am not sure if anyone who
have read in IoT. or knew about this please feel free to correct me and also
enlighten me. it goes like
Once, upon a time when God was creating
the Universe and everything in it, he realized he needed some help to figure
out what to do with happiness. So he called all the angels and asked them, “ I
must find a place for happiness in the world, but I am having trouble knowing
what to do. If it is too easy to find, they will not value it enough. Please
help me.”
Well, the angels pondered this
conundrum. Then one Angel brightened and said, “What about putting it on the
highest mountain top?”
God thought a moment and then
shook his head. “No, I'm afraid they will eventually go there and find
happiness; it will no longer be hard to find.”
The angels discussed the issue
further, until another angel said, “God, what about putting it in the deepest
ocean depths?”
“Thank you, but that won't work
either,” God responded, sadly. “They will get there eventually as well.”
After a few more moments of
thought, God's face lit up and he exclaimed, “I have it!”
“What, God?” the angels asked
anxiously. “What is the solution?”
God smiled and replied, “I will
put it inside of them, for they will never think to look for it there.”
And so, the moral of the story
is: You can only find true happiness inside yourself. You can find external
things to give you temporary 'happiness', but it is not really happiness. It is
your illusion."Like the musk deer, which searches for grass again and
again, unaware of the fragrance of musk in its own navel." The only real happiness comes from your
earnest choice to be happy, no matter what your circumstances are.
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