Seeking meaning, not happiness, will make you happier

A true believer in Christ Jesus even surrounded with lots of difficulties shall be able to receive the pleasures and well-being of their hope in the promises of God.
As such their happiness may be an unintended side effect of their personal dedication to a greater cause than many human pleasures and greater than oneself or as the by-product of their surrender to the Most High Divine Being, Jehovah God.

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Greeting a person to give happiness

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One of the most stinging ironies of our species is the pursuit of happiness, an idea that is tragically self-defeating. Like the donkey being pushed forward by a glistening carrot that will forever elude him, pursuing happiness will position it just out of reach, but close enough for us to continue striving. It’s right there to be taken – so near and yet so far – if our grasping mitts were just a little longer.

As it turns out, happiness is incidental. It cannot be obtained by striving, and by doing so you’re making an ass of yourself. This is known as the paradox of hedonism, the idea that seeking happiness/pleasure only serves to hinder it, and in fact, you’re more likely to be happier if you quit your foolish efforts.

An example from Wikipedia illustrates the concept perfectly:

“Suppose Paul likes to…

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Curious creature or Positivist man

“Positivist man is a curious creature who dwells in the tiny island of light composed of what he finds scientifically “meaningful,” while the whole surrounding area in which ordinary men live from day to day and have their dealings with other men is consigned to the outer darkness of the “meaningless.” Positivism has simply accepted the fractured being of modern man and erected a philosophy to intensify it.

Existentialism, whether successfully or not, has attempted instead to gather all the elements of human reality into a total picture of man. Positivist man and Existentialist man are no doubt offspring of the same parent epoch, but, somewhat as Cain and Abel were, the brothers are divided unalterably by temperament and the initial choice they make of their own being.”

― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

 

Thoughts ideas and will can bring man far in life. – Historical quotes commemorating the Berlin Wall. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Paris, in Retrospect

For those who saw the darkest night in their life. Parents grieved their children + world watched in horror => Lamenting act of terror

Evil = building for centuries => no one righteous, no not one

there is goodness = light

Strokes of a Pen

As one of your own said,
“Even the darkest night will and and the sun will rise.”
That night has ended and the sun did rise
But the sun only illuminated the devastation
Parents grieved their children
And the world watched in horror
Lamenting the act of terror
And across the sea, Lady Liberty hung her head
Sorrowful for her native land

So we are left
Trying to find meaning in the pain
Trying to explain this deed
But there is only one answer

Evil.

Evil that has been building for centuries
Evil that began when they both took and ate
Evil that grew when their son killed his brother
Evil that has spread across the earth
There is no one righteous, no not one

But there is goodness
There is a light that fights night and day
With the darkness of our very souls
You can shine a light…

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How to Find the Meaning of Life and Reach a State of Peace

Lots of people wonder why they live and have to struggle so much. More people do think they can enrich their life with several gadgets and do think when they live without caring about the rest they may enjoy it most.

The materialistic mind shall not find peace and a state of peace is far away from those who only think about themselves.

We should not go to try to find meaning behind every bit and piece of the day. We should be aware that we do live in a time system which shall always be imperfect. No government shall be sufficient to bring everything all right for every body. Only the governing system that shall come after World War III or Armageddon shall bring relief. though we do not know when that final point of the world-system would come, at the time that the master rabbi Jeshua (Jesus Christ) will return, we can already work on a better system to take into account every creature and to give it the full respect it deserves.

The world is created out of chaos and the void but got turned over by mankind and filled with a lot of rubbish, trash defiling nature. In case we work at it to get again some order we also will find a better way of living.

Peace is in every bodies hand. It is there to make easily when the person wants to put aside his own individual egoism. when we let go of all the bothering things, the struggles we have in us and we do encounter each day, than we shall find ‘soulavement’ mitigation of all inner and outer pains, alleviation of ‘ourselves’.

It was material desire and greed which brought sin in the world. This materialism has grown unto unseen proportion; But this also means we are coming closer to the end times and to the point that some may think there is reached the point of no return, but at the other hand where is reached the point that more people their eyes shall be opened and who will find the way to a better life, making the relation of the in God’s image created human being back into a good relation with the rest of the creation.

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Less… is still enough

Less for more

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Additional reading:

1. Fear, struggles, sadness, bad feelings and depression
2. Finding Beauty Amongst the Trash
3. Watch out
4. What Are You Seeking?
5. A bird’s eye and reflecting from within
6. Walking in the Light of Life
7. True happiness, love and perfection
8. Getting fate in your change to positiveness
9. Lose a little inner peace
10. Not holding back and getting out of darkness
11. We all have to have dreams
12. Walking in the Light of Life
13. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness
14. Peace Takes You
15. Humbleness
16. Being Religious and Spiritual 4 Philosophical, religious and spiritual people
17. Looking for True Spirituality 1 Intro
18. Looking for True Spirituality 8 Measuring Up
19. Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark
20. Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
21. The World framed by the Word of God
22. Scripture about Creation and Creator Deity
23. Coming to the creation of human beings in the image of God
24. Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 2
25. God’s wisdom for the believer brings peace
26. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #16 Benefits of praying
27. Cry out to Yahweh
28. Give your tears to God
29. Looking forward to the return of Jesus
30. Israel, Fitting the Plan when people allow it

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Let's Reach Success

I’ve heard many answers to the existential question about the meaning of life.

And as with everything else, each individual has his own view according to his beliefs and experience, things he wants and is going through right now.

But there is one problem – he puts meaning in every little detail of his average day and sometimes that affects his version of his mission in life, and eventually his actions.

Life is about more than the daily worries, fears, people that come and go, and things we pay too much attention to.

And in this – finding meaning in life – we’re all equal, because the goal is one.

Peace of mind.

Life is about finding peace inthe chaos, silence in the noise, meaning in every event and wisdom in hardships and grief.

Because peace is the highest happiness.

It’s hard to find with all the distractions around…

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