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After some reflection I believe there are ultimately 3 principles by which if a person lives their life, they can obtain happiness.
1. The principle of the boomerang: The world will almost never give you more than you are willing to give it. If you are cold and heartless, then others will be cold and heartless right back. But if you are fair and nurturing, then you may find others to be much more fair and nurturing. Trust in your own goodness and you will find the goodness in others. Most philosophers have understood the golden rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" and the much simpler, "Love thy neighbor".
2. The principle of attraction: What we seek from the world will not find us, we must actively seek it. If you look around yourself right now for all the things that are red, you may realize for the first time how many red things that you have never noticed before. Our ability to focus brings out a hidden world of possibilities. If you wish to be wise, then seek the wisdom in the world and you will find opportunities to learn and practice wisdom. If you wish to be rich, then seek wealth and you will find opportunities to obtain great wealth that you may have otherwise missed. The secret is to know what you want and to live to obtain it. As Ghandi would say, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." Live to be true to yourself and what you want from life and the world will change before your very eyes.
3. The principle of salvation: Perhaps the most difficult thing in life is to let go. The past is determined and the future is uncertain, so the only power you will ever have resides in the present. If you try to live in the past, then it will anchor you down and you will never to be able to grow. You need to be able to forgive the mistakes of others and the mistakes you have made and seek to learn from them. You can never change the past. If you worry endlessly about the future, then you will never take the risks you need to live. You can never predict what the future holds. All you can do is live in the here and now and have faith that things will turn out for the best. But even if they don't, then you will have lived a life of no regrets because you at least tried. Just learn to accept things as they are without trying to change them. The only thing you can truly change is yourself. The world is as is it. If you are true to yourself and what you want, then the world will change when it is ready and not a moment sooner. Trying to impose your values and beliefs on the world will embitter you and eventually make you a hypocrite and laughingstock. It's best to just live and let live and allow those who wish to control the lives of others to set the foundation of their own despair. "C'est la vie", such is life.
1. The principle of the boomerang: The world will almost never give you more than you are willing to give it. If you are cold and heartless, then others will be cold and heartless right back. But if you are fair and nurturing, then you may find others to be much more fair and nurturing. Trust in your own goodness and you will find the goodness in others. Most philosophers have understood the golden rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" and the much simpler, "Love thy neighbor".
2. The principle of attraction: What we seek from the world will not find us, we must actively seek it. If you look around yourself right now for all the things that are red, you may realize for the first time how many red things that you have never noticed before. Our ability to focus brings out a hidden world of possibilities. If you wish to be wise, then seek the wisdom in the world and you will find opportunities to learn and practice wisdom. If you wish to be rich, then seek wealth and you will find opportunities to obtain great wealth that you may have otherwise missed. The secret is to know what you want and to live to obtain it. As Ghandi would say, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." Live to be true to yourself and what you want from life and the world will change before your very eyes.
3. The principle of salvation: Perhaps the most difficult thing in life is to let go. The past is determined and the future is uncertain, so the only power you will ever have resides in the present. If you try to live in the past, then it will anchor you down and you will never to be able to grow. You need to be able to forgive the mistakes of others and the mistakes you have made and seek to learn from them. You can never change the past. If you worry endlessly about the future, then you will never take the risks you need to live. You can never predict what the future holds. All you can do is live in the here and now and have faith that things will turn out for the best. But even if they don't, then you will have lived a life of no regrets because you at least tried. Just learn to accept things as they are without trying to change them. The only thing you can truly change is yourself. The world is as is it. If you are true to yourself and what you want, then the world will change when it is ready and not a moment sooner. Trying to impose your values and beliefs on the world will embitter you and eventually make you a hypocrite and laughingstock. It's best to just live and let live and allow those who wish to control the lives of others to set the foundation of their own despair. "C'est la vie", such is life.