No one is born happy. As Erich Fromm said, happiness is not a gift of gods. It is achieved out of one’s own inner productiveness. He, who executes his role just as a child plays a game for the sake of play, enjoys the best of both the worlds. Unfortunately, as we grow older and wiser, it is reported that we often loose that ‘imagination’ with which a child is often found transforming commonplaces into the priceless. We also often watch children ‘being alive to the moment’ and display a fresh quality of freedom, of “letting themselves go”. They perhaps instinctively realise that happiness is more when one is being spontaneous. An adult should, therefore, cultivate that ‘spontaneity’ and an air of freshness charged with a gay abandon of rigidity to just enjoy the work.
According
to Aristotle, it is the people who, endowed with self-sufficiency,
unweariedness and capacity for rest, by using intellect, find happiness in
every act of them. “Every normal
function of life holds some delight”, and historian, William Durant. It is those people who cultivate a liking for
themselves, of course for true reasons, who succeed in being happy or delighted
by even mundane events in daily life. It
is often those unhappy people who never held themselves responsible for their
condition; instead blame their jobs, marriages, or the cruelty of fate. Such people will have no warmth to give
either at work or at home, and are destined to be sterile and confused. To overcome these frailties, one needs to
achieve a fair measure of harmony with himself and his family circle. The quintessential of being in harmony with
oneself is the “affection and understanding of the family”.
It
is possible for all of us to sharpen our wits to observe man and nature and
realise that the seat of happiness rests in the unique strength and beauty
within all living things. A frame of
mind of “all in one and one in all” shall therefore pave the way for happiness. And that is what even out heritage preaches:
Behave with others as you would with yourself.
Look upon all the living beings as your bosom friends, for in all
of them there resides one soul.
All are but a part of that universal soul.
A person who believes that all are his soul-mates and loves them
all alike, never feel lonely.
The
divine qualities of forgiveness, compassion and service will make him
lovable inthe eyes of all.He will experience intense joy throughout his
life.
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Let
us never ever resort to air feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances
and thereby put off living happily today.
Instead, cultivate a right frame of mind that explores one’s potential
fully to attain quality of life. Purity
of mind in thought, word and action is a step in the direction of achieving
excellence at work. Such a mind-set
spontaneously gives rise to ‘shraddha’ (devotion) that is indispensable to
achieve any success, of which ‘quality of life’ is a natural follower.
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