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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness - simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain. By the proper use of experience and thought one can draw much from oneself; by determination and patience one can even restore one's health.

                                                   George Sand

 

 

 

 

Dr. Mortimer J. Adler: Happiness: Syntopicon essay

Personal Statement #3: An Introduction to The Scientific Evidence for The AfterLife: "I'm not allowed to tell you too much about what it's like over here, because some of you might try to end your mortal lives just to get here a little faster"

Personal Statement #7: Love In The AfterLife: The Love Story of Elmere and Franklin: Summerland, Where Dreams Come True 

Personal Statement #23: Part 1: Forgiveness, The Final Battle: What I Learned From Father John Kuhn

Personal Statement #28: Love In The AfterLife: The Perfect Storm of Ultimate Human Suffering : Exploring Cosmic Meaning in Separation from a Soulmate Lover: Making Your Music Pure

Personal Statement #31: Finding Healing From Religious Abuse: The Nature of Authentic Spiritual Authority: What I Learned From Father John Kuhn

Personal Statement #46: Love In The AfterLife: Romance at the Pinnacle of Existence! The Ultimate Dualistic-Halves of Eternal Twin-Soul Love! Why Your Deepest Yearning is the Voice of the Universe Proclaiming Its Truest Cosmic Message! "I will love no other! no other!"

Personal Statement #63: Love In The AfterLife: Summerland: Where Dreams Come True, Part II: How You Will Yet Find Healing from the Devastating Losses of this World! Long, long shall I rue thee, too deeply to tell

Personal Statement #67: The Hidden Meaning, the Many Faces, the Subtle Nature, of Evil! Would you recognize it if you met it, on the street, or in the mirror?

 

 

 

 

Howard Whitman, Success Is Within You: "The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts... Success, if it is to be meaningful, must be a personal thing... William Faulker, the Nobel prize novelist, has said, 'I was born to be a tramp. I was happiest when I had nothing. I had a trenchcoat then with big pockets. It would carry a pair of socks, a condensed Shakespeare, and a bottle of whiskey. Then I was happy and I wanted nothing and I had no responsibility.' One may reject this definition of success. That is, one may reject it for himself, but he cannot reject it for Faulkner."

Dr. Carl Wickland, Gateway To Understanding: "What is the purpose of Life? In this age of unrest and disturbance many earnest minds are seeking the fundamentals underlying life itself. Humanity is still kept in subjection by fear and superstition, by repressive laws, by dogmas, creeds and false doctrines, and has not yet attained liberation through a fuller understanding. Happiness is unquestionably the goal of all human endeavor; all activities have this one aim in view. There are various conceptions of happiness, some confined entirely to physical, others to mental pleasures, while still others reach for spiritual happiness. What is this happiness, sought for through the ages? Happiness is not a thing; it is a condition of mind. This universal search, whether fulfilled or not, must indicate the existence of one Universal Principle, drawing all mankind to one ultimate, common attainment. It is evident that this Universal Principle has projected a visible universe for the purpose of individualizing humanity, and the goal of individualization is the acquirement of wisdom, which can only be attained through experience and reason." 

Albert Schweitzer: The kindly doctor ministered to the world's cast-off underprivileged. On his 80th birthday, in 1955, admirers raised $20,000 to send him cards, flowers and trinkets in darkest Africa, upon receipt of which the sainted recluse commented: "How I regret all this fuss. How tired I am."

Henry David Thoreau: "A man is rich in the proportions of things he can let alone."

Dale Carnegie, How To Stop Worrying And Start Living: He tells the story of a lady with virtually no eyesight: "Then in 1943, when she was 52 years old, a miracle happened: an operation at the famous Mayo Clinic. She could now see 40 times [better]... A new and exciting world of loveliness opened before her. She now found it thrilling to even to wash dishes in the kitchen sink. 'I begin to play with the white fluffy suds in the dishpan... I dip my hands into them and I pick up a ball of tiny soap... I can see the brilliant colors of a miniature rainbow.' ... You and I ought to be ashamed of ourselves. All the days of our years we have been living in a fairyland of beauty, but we have been too blind to see, too satiated to enjoy. If you want to stop worrying and start living: Count your blessings - not your troubles!"

Albert Camus: “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast ... in the hearts you encounter."

Buddha: "Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others."

Martin Luther King, Jr.: We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not yet learned the simple art of living together like brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit.

John Milton: "The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven."

Margaret Bonnano: "It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis."

Gandhi: "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Hawthorne: "Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

Charlotte Dresser, Life Here And Hereafter (1927): transcribed by Dresser, words sent from the Other Side: "I am wishing to tell those on earth, who are struggling to learn what is the meaning of life, that it is the way one looks at it that determines its value. If one thinks of it as a time of sensuous enjoyment, one makes his life a thing of little worth, for such things have no value in the spirit world. If one looks at life as something to be endured and to be gotten through as soon as possible, he will form a character that has nothing to rest on here. He will have to create new foundations before he can advance. If one there believes that life consists in praying and preaching, that spirit is apt to want to pray and preach here; and in this world there are no churches or congregations to respond as they did there, and the spirit has to learn that there are other things to acquire before the true life can be enjoyed. When a soul on earth can realize that there are others there who need assistance, who will be the better for aid and sympathy, and can learn to feel that this aid and sympathy can be given by himself, he is on the way to create the life that will mean the most to him when his mortal life is over."

Frederic W. H. Myers, Vanishing Night, transmitted to Juliet S. Goodenow, 1923: "It is not so much what you will find when you come to this side of life as what you will bring with you... Sleep is the best definition of death I know anything about - just going to sleep unafraid to awake in a new and beautiful room, and to be satisfied."

Mother Teresa: "The Western world will never know peace as long as they continue to allow their mothers to kill their own young."

I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen.

                                                                 Abd ER-Rahman III of Spain (960)

 

 

 

 

 

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