It’s difficult not to be happy when we have a grateful heart. For the first twenty plus years of my life, I had never experienced gratitude so when trying to identify with it, the closest I could come was being glad. Now that I have a grateful heart, I know that there is a tremendous difference between being glad and being grateful. Read more…

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Metta is a Pali word meaning Loving-kindness or universal love. Anger and ill-will are common roadblocks to happiness. Metta is one of the solutions for our ill-will and anger. I understand that some anger may very well be justified but that does not mean that is helping you or others around you. Please read my post titled “Resentment” for more about justified anger. Read more…

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Our ability to be honest and our level of honesty greatly impacts our happiness. Honesty is much more than simply not telling lies. There are many levels of honesty, some which we are capable of seeing and some which we are not. The levels of honesty that we do not recognize are a result of our denial or lack of awareness. This post will be geared more towards the basic levels of honesty upon which we can make immediate improvements. Read more…

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God, Higher Power, Universal Force or whatever you choose to call that which makes things go down here may have shown itself at my house this morning. Please understand that the experience in which I am about to share is not meant to be taken too seriously and I couldn’t help laughing, but it certainly made me think. Read more…

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Part II of How Well Do You Treat Others?

Now that you’ve read Part I of this post, there is no going back. You have the knowledge. You know what needs to be done and how well you treat others has been brought into the light. Read more…

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Part I

If you want to be happy, you must not only be good to yourself, but you must treat others well too. How often do we blindly plunge forward in our lives without thinking about the consequences that our actions may have on other beings? Most of the work we need to do to be happy pertains to our spiritual and psychological conditions. Here’s the catch…we do not live in a vacuum so we must practice the spiritual principles that we learn in our lives. In case you haven’t noticed, our lives include other beings Read more…

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To those of you who are naturally happy and peaceful, this post may not apply, but for the rest of us, this happiness business takes a lot of effort. The spiritual principles* set forth on this site need to be incorporated into our lives. We can’t simply read the words on the screen and think that we have done all we can to reap the benefits of whatever we just read. We need to read and then read again and again and then we need to practice these spiritual principles in our lives. Practice being the key word here. Read more…

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Part II of “Why Worry About Tomorrow”

What do we think about when we think? It is possible that we think too much. Many times are thoughts are not productive or useful and they decrease our ability to be happy and at peace. So there you have it, don’t think and be happy. Almost, but not exactly. Read more…

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Part I

When we worry about the future we ruin the present moment. The fears of what tomorrow might bring are experienced in the here and now, so how can we be happy at a given moment if we are worrying about the future at that same moment? That’s not a trick question The answer is, that are happiness will be affected if we are simultaneously living in fear of the future. Read more…

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Have you ever been afraid to let go of a personal relationship, whether it be a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife or even a platonic friendship? Our fears of detaching may be deep rooted and not so easily remedied. Such clinging and obsessive behaviors may appear unseemly to others who do not understand our fears and apparent inability to let go. What can we do to free ourselves of this bondage so that we can be happy? Read more…

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