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Choosing happiness helps us to think good thoughts, and thinking good thoughts helps to create even more happiness. Instead of waiting for all your desires to
be met before you can feel happy, just choose to be happy right now – as things are, as you are. Simply decide, "I am going to be happy," regardless. Then,
even if you're going through some discomforts or troubling times, you'll find that your spiritual happiness remains alive.

If you remain absorbed by your temporary feelings – consistently asking whether this event or that person is making you happy, you place the happiness of
your life at the mercy of other external people or events that you may not always be able to control. Rather, if you make the choice to be happy, the control and
responsibility for your happiness rests with you. Say to yourself, "I choose to be happy, right here and right now." Say it and mean it.

Making the conscious choice to be happy doesn’t mean you have to compromise and stop making efforts to improve your circumstances, rather that you stop
making them with stress and doubt. By choosing happiness, you'll be more likely to take clear-headed and clear-hearted decisions that can also help to bring
your outer life into greater harmony with your authentic self.

Don't let fears, worries, or doubts obstruct your happiness. Fill your life with happy thoughts, and you'll attract a happy life.

When one goal appears, don't upset yourself by thinking, "Where is the other one?" Be grateful that one has materialised and let the positive energy of your
gratitude feed back into the universe and create even more positive results.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize that nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you! - Lao Tzu

Instead of waiting for something to make you happy, “I’ll be happy if and when,” . . “Next time I’ll be happier because” . . “We’d be happier there” . . you
can choose to feel joy about anything NOW, not if and when not next time, not someplace else, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW. Right now, there is something
in your life that you can feel joy about. Just by feeling that joy, you will be putting out more "joy energy" into your world, and that same joy will reflect and
come back to you even more abundantly.

As my research continued, I also began to recognise more clearly that happiness is, and has always been, right inside my heart and soul, as it most certainly
also exists fully inside of you.

Happiness Comes From Within

The first step in finding happiness is to understand that happiness always comes from inside yourself. Even if your experience of happiness appears
to be coming from an outer source or experience, the actual happiness is coming from within you.

Men and women are rushing hither and thither in the blind search for happiness, and cannot find it; nor ever will until they recognize that happiness
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is already within them and round about them, filling the universe, and that they, in their selfish searching, are shutting themselves out from it.
--James Allen “As A man Thinketh”