DON’T FORGET

 

                DON’T FORGET

            Don’t forget that this world is a place of suffering.

            Lord Buddha finally came to this conclusion that suffering inescapable. It has a cause. Get over the  cause and suffering will vanish.

            The main cause is wrong thinking, wrong doing,  wrong earning , wrong, living, wrong contemplation, etc.

            To put it briefly suffering is due to wrong actions, to get rid of it,  all the  wrong actions have to be abandoned forever. This is  however not  possible for everybody. Only he who has become fully enlightened about the roots of suffering and  has attained the will to destroy them for ever can eternally  stop the cycle of birth and death .

            Suffering is also a purifier. It refines the mind and keeps enlightening the soul.

            There is no person in the world who does not yearn for happiness. The English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) said in his novel The Mayor of Casterbrdge “Happiness was but an occasional episode in a general drama of pain. “

            Here are some famous quotes about happiness:

*Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.  

**Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God.

Happiness consists in the attainment  of our desires, and in our having only right desires.

****The secret of happiness is renunciation, ---.

*****Happiness is ot the end of life; character is.

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G.R.Kanwal

17 December 2025