What is happiness? How to get happiness? How to retain happiness for ever?
By vijayanths
@vijayanths (7877)
India
June 18, 2012 10:31am CST
What is happiness? How to get happiness? How to retain happiness for ever?
Happiness differs from one person to another. One may find happiness in smoking while another get happiness from drinking liquors. Some men may find it chasing after women etc. We all think money can make us happy.
Real happiness lies in your spiritual development. It's like loving the Universe and all the species in it. Once you can grow spiritually, all the materialistic pleasures will fall in place.
What do you think?
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9 responses
@youless (112562)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Jun 12
The happiness is a difficult and complicated feelings. Sometimes you can be happy because of little things. But in my opinion, if you have less expectation, then you will feel happier. Since you don't have a high expectation, so you will not fulfill your wishes by all means. As the process can be suffering. Once it fails, it is disappointing and discouraging. If you are easy to feel satisfactory, your life will be relaxing and happy.
I love China
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
22 Jun 12
That's a point. Having minimum expectations is another way of avoiding disappointments and eventually unhappiness. You can be happy then as you said.
@ifa225 (14460)
• Indonesia
20 Jun 12
Happiness no long caused end
there is no eternal happiness
though we try to do it in spiritualy...sadness are there to differ the Happiness itself
even we dont need material things but i w can give some material things to other,it can make other happy. Thus to makeother happy i th Happiness caused by the material things
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
22 Jun 12
We all are not aware of spirituality and its uses. Once you try to understand it, you will find more meaning in this discussion, thanks.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
22 Jun 12
How are you Pose, it's one step ahead to understand about the happiness from spiritual development. I am already on the first step of it, hope I would go way far and enjoy utmost happiness.
@goldenteardrops (747)
• United States
18 Jun 12
money helps if spent in the right way but to me love covers it all . real true love is something you cannot buy..one is happy if there is love it covers all things..
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
19 Jun 12
very true goldenteardrops . Money helps to be happy but can't buy happiness sometimes. It can't buy true love too.
@andycom10 (4)
• South Africa
21 Jun 12
Why do you say that happiness is determined by finding one's spirituality? Who decided that? Is that a fact or just perception? My belief which is also an evolving belief is that happiness is based on being content with what you have and not spending time chasing after things but allowing yourself to be happy at every moment, to celebrate life even when things are not going your way. This does not mean that you are one with the unirvese but just means that you are with yourself.
@Jotomy (6322)
• India
21 Jun 12
Hi anna, how are you? for me happiness is that when we spend with our family members, as a woman i can say creating a nice atmosphere for my family members at home it can be cooking, decoration, cleaning, talking with smile, laughing and make laugh play with my kid etc., ofcourse spirituality is one of thing which brings wide knowledge about the this life and how to make happy yourself and others. It also teach us how to face problems and tackle with it. Many people say if they have enough money they will be happy but i can tell you it is a part of it because we have to live and for that we have to buy many things to lead our life. But i can't say that money only one thing will bring happiness to life. Love and affection one of the basic need to be happy in the life. If you love some one you will get love from them. Be happy and make others also happy (this is my quote) that is real happiness.
Have a nice day. 
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
22 Jun 12
my dear sister Jo, money is important to get happiness in life. But money alone can't give you happiness. If you have millions and no one to love you, will it not be miserable? If you develop spiritually, all that you want in this worldly life , you will get automatically. I mean, the money, fame, love etc.. That's the real happiness. that said, it's not easy to develop spiritually.
@GemmaR (8517)
•
25 Jun 12
I think that in order to be happy, you have to realise that not everything can be perfect in your life, and there are always going to be certain things that could be better, but realising that there are still many things that are good about your life is very important, and it is this realisation that will make you happy. If you waste too much of your life just thinking about what you could do to be better or richer then you're never going to be happy, because you will never get the feeling that you are content with the things in your life, and you will always be looking for more.
@allknowing (137553)
• India
19 Jun 12
Anticipating trouble and living through that feeling until trouble visits you is like suffering twice. Taking things in one's stride is the true route to happiness. It is not how much we have but what we make what we have is yet another way to stay happy.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
22 Jun 12
That's a good point too. anticipating the problems in advance and be able to solve them would certainly give you great happiness.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
18 Jun 12
Happiness is a feeling. You are the only one who can give you happiness "whole" time since you are the one who knows you the most.. but it's impossible to retain happiness forever. If it's there forever you will get used to it and you will not recognize or see it as happiness anymore.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
19 Jun 12
hi, WakeUpKitty happiness is a state of mind. It's possible to get eternal happiness. But it takes a lot of mind training. It's not for common people like you and me.
