Happiness and Contentment

It's an essential skill to be happy and content by yourself. Everything we do, we do so we can achieve some sense of clarity, which in turn would provide us with this space of calm and clarity. Sometimes, we think this requires another person or thing, something outside of us, to create that for us. That rarely works out.

Happiness and contentment can be achieved from within only. There is no one that can share in your happiness; it is all alone and in your mind. No one really cares about your happiness except you. When people do things to make you happy, it is actually a desire within them that drives this. It causes them happiness (or maybe decreased suffering).

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