Saturday, February 25, 2023

Secret of happiness

 Maria Popova

In my darkest hours what  had saved me again and again

Is some action of unselfing ,

Some instinctive wakefulness to an aspect of the world

Other than myself-

An helping hand extended to someone else's struggle

The dazzling galaxy just discovered millions of light years away-

Cardinal trembling of the tree outside the window


So to contact happiness of angry kind is

To be dissolved into something complete and great 

Something beyond the bruising boundaries of the ego. 

The attainment of happiness then is then less a matter of pursuit than surrender to the world's wonder 

Ready as it comes!!!


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