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Once you understand that your mind is the source of happiness, you have an opportunity to consciously take back the control of your experience of life. You
can look at anything that happens, and think, "How can I grow from this? How can I interpret this in a positive way? How can I love, embrace, and make the
best of this situation?" You can enjoy the many benefits that come from intelligent, intentional optimism, including the wonder of spiritual happiness. With
the miracle of your mind, you can approach life with excitement, willingness, inspiration, and joy. Happiness will then follow you automatically.

“A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be”.
Abraham Lincoln - 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

HAPPINESS IS ACCEPTANCE

All issues, all turmoil, all conflicts can be handled by understanding what the problem is and accepting it, then changing it. We are either part of the problem
or part of the solution. When we are disturbed about something or someone, it is because we do not understand on a higher level but view it through our
personality which is attached to our need to control things and see ourselves in a positive light.

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent”. – Eleanor Roosevelt - 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer,
Humanitarian

“Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step
to overcoming the consequence of misfortune”.
William James -

If some part of our life is unacceptable, and we have been unsuccessful in dealing with it, sometimes the only way through is to accept that this is so. We cannot
find serenity when we are at war with someone or with ourselves. Nothing happens in this wonderful Universe by mistake or accident. Unless we accept our
situation and learn from it, we cannot be happy. If we learn from it, then we need not suffer unnecessarily.

Nor do we need to hurt others with words of blame. We need only concentrate on our part of the situation; what needs to be changed is our way of thinking
and having done so, happiness will follow.

HAPPINESS AND SELF ACCEPTANCE

A little bit of pleasure, an occasional sixty seconds of joy, is for most of us, quite acceptable and very much appreciated. It goes some way to making
up for the work, the stress, the suffering and the sacrifice that came before it. Whilst we may be comfortable with life’s little pleasures; our
conditioning makes us feel less comfortable with prolonged happiness, full blown JOY and everlasting bliss.
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