The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.
Interpretation
True happiness comes from self-exploration and accepting all aspects of oneself.
This quote emphasizes that the path to happiness requires us to introspect deeply and take ownership of our inner feelings, thoughts, and experiences, both positive and negative. By acknowledging and accepting every part of ourselves, we can cultivate a more authentic and fulfilling happiness.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a mental health seminar to encourage self-acceptance and personal growth.
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.
The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.
Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).
We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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