Frederick Keonig on Happiness
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
- Frederick Keonig
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Roy Bayfield Said,
February 23, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
I like this but it has led to some thoughts.
Is ‘having’, whether in the future (as in wanting what we don’t have) or the present (as in appreciating what we do have) what it’s all about? For instance, I could survey my possessions and feel satisfied with them – is there spiritual merit in this? They and I will be dust soon…
On the rare eternal moments when I am living in the moment, aware, am I ‘having’ it? Or letting it go?
Perfume Said,
February 23, 2009 @ 5:19 pm
Once we have what we want doesn’t the novelty wear off? So is it really happiness?
Whereas if we appreciate what we have, which could of course, could change or remain constant. Either way we’d be better off as we’d be content with what we have rather than pining after what we don’t.
When we realise that happiness isn’t really in anything but the pure form of the soul which is the vehicle for us to attain Moksha; then we’ll reach our goal and be truly happy!