Comments on: What is happiness? http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2009/07/08/what-is-happiness/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:53:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Alain Dardar http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2009/07/08/what-is-happiness/comment-page-4/#comment-542926 Alain Dardar Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:45:50 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/warrioroflight/?p=762#comment-542926 What is Happiness? I do believe that happiness does not exist at least not as we think it does... For me happiness is like the air we breathe, we can't touch it, we can't see it yet we breathe it. Like the salt in the sea, we can't see it, we can't touch it yet we can taste it... Happiness is a state of mind one can reach time to time but not stays in... Can we stay sad 24/7? Even if we have just lost the most beloved person in our life the smile of a child will ease our sorrow... Can we stay mad 24/7? Even if we just lost our more precious belonging due to an exterior factor the touch of a beloved one will ease our ire. Now can we stay happy 24/7? I do not believe so because we aren't alone in heaven and that my little piece of heaven stops where yours is starting. I'm trying to be as happy as I can and as long as I can knowing that time will come when sorrow or anger will take over and that I will have then to be all "The Warrior" I can be to fight those feelings back in order for me to return to my "HAPPY STATE OF MIND"... That's what I think... :) What is Happiness?

I do believe that happiness does not exist at least not as we think it does… For me happiness is like the air we breathe, we can’t touch it, we can’t see it yet we breathe it. Like the salt in the sea, we can’t see it, we can’t touch it yet we can taste it… Happiness is a state of mind one can reach time to time but not stays in… Can we stay sad 24/7? Even if we have just lost the most beloved person in our life the smile of a child will ease our sorrow… Can we stay mad 24/7? Even if we just lost our more precious belonging due to an exterior factor the touch of a beloved one will ease our ire. Now can we stay happy 24/7? I do not believe so because we aren’t alone in heaven and that my little piece of heaven stops where yours is starting. I’m trying to be as happy as I can and as long as I can knowing that time will come when sorrow or anger will take over and that I will have then to be all “The Warrior” I can be to fight those feelings back in order for me to return to my “HAPPY STATE OF MIND”… That’s what I think… :)

]]> By: clarissa http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2009/07/08/what-is-happiness/comment-page-4/#comment-538711 clarissa Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:32:24 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/warrioroflight/?p=762#comment-538711 Happiness is living your life the way you want to without any fear of being ostracized by society. Happiness is living your life the way you want to without any fear of being ostracized by society.

]]> By: Olta Ana http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2009/07/08/what-is-happiness/comment-page-4/#comment-538695 Olta Ana Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:29:17 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/warrioroflight/?p=762#comment-538695 I forgot to say something I do not because of habitude but because I mean it every time I write it: ♥♥♥LOVE♥♥♥ Olta I forgot to say something I do not because of habitude but because I mean it every time I write it:

♥♥♥LOVE♥♥♥
Olta

]]> By: Olta Ana http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2009/07/08/what-is-happiness/comment-page-4/#comment-538694 Olta Ana Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:25:33 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/warrioroflight/?p=762#comment-538694 What is happiness?... We all keep wondering about this. Philosophers too have been working on that. Trying to find a way to it, through mind, spirit, etc. The only people I've heard about, who can really be happy in this life, have always been the Saints, those who have brought real miracles into this world. As you might have noticed, most of times that I give an example from life, I take my self as first. I often regret that and think that instead of rushing and doing that another time, I could take someone else, but I see that the way the world is seen it comes through our eyes first. Then others point of view helps to complete, and after that we reflect over it and make conclusions... Well! To fully understand a Saint's spirit it is needed to be a Saint, something which honestly... Sometimes I keep thinking if real happiness has forcefully to be related with the presence of God or not. Each Sunday hen I go to the church, I will hear the words : "Our archbishop, the truly happy one" I've been always thinking about that, I've been wondering: "Is he really living in a constant happiness?" Something used to tell me that those words couldn't just come out from nothing, just like a fake tittle, there must be a real reason why they say so. One Sunday, not far from now, a priest died. He was an extraordinary person. He has done a lot for Albania and was a very great friend of the archbishop.I haven't had the possibility to him myself but I've heard of him. That Sunday I just couldn't see anywhere the shining archbishop's face as usual till at the end of the liturgy I saw him wearing in black. He gave us himself the bad news and he did that almost in tears. He was holding himself, but those tears was so bitter to my. He was destroyed, because he had the most love and admiration for his good friend, who was now gone. I immediately thought about when I lost someone I loved that much too. I am sure that if God wants to give us some lessons he hits us where it really hurts. The next Sunday I would have had the my answer... It was the time when the liturgy was over he was spreading the wafer to us. That would have been the moment when I'd have had the possibility to see him by close and know. His face wasn't in pain. He looked calmed and in peace. I suddenly thought about wishing him a happy day, and so I did. I immediately saw his face shining again. He spoke in greek to me, because he is greek, and than he wished the same to me. I don't understand a word in greek but at least I could understand his happiness. I am starting to believe Paulo that Happiness and Love are very best friends. You might think about those who are lost. The love we have always had for them doesn't make us really happy when we loose them. Thank God I still have my parents alive and my dear sisters who cam make my day a living miracle because of the love we have. I have no children, which by the way I might loose and feel forever unhappy, I don't know if I could, but it seems that the love that we share for those who still live in this world can make us happy, and the more we learn to give this love the more happy we are. I am repeating the fact that the lost I had left a great mark in me and a huge hollow in my soul. That person was someone who used to hold my whole being, and to read my soul without needing me to tell my problems. God! I never believed I would have lost that person so soon. Never! But one other thing I would have never believed is the fact that I could have been really happy again, but now I am. Not because I went over that person, or because I have everything I want, or because my dreams are coming true, but because of LOVE. The joyful archbishop's face was a sign to me... To make me see that compared to love, our wishes, dreams, thought, etc. turn into ashes and then into nothing. Maybe Jesus really meant this when he said : "Do not love this world!" Not for making us or our dreams seem truly miserable but because there is something which stand above all of these, which really matters. I had just a sign to believe in, but still I don't know for sure. What is happiness?…
We all keep wondering about this. Philosophers too have been working on that. Trying to find a way to it, through mind, spirit, etc.
The only people I’ve heard about, who can really be happy in this life, have always been the Saints, those who have brought real miracles into this world.
As you might have noticed, most of times that I give an example from life, I take my self as first. I often regret that and think that instead of rushing and doing that another time, I could take someone else, but I see that the way the world is seen it comes through our eyes first. Then others point of view helps to complete, and after that we reflect over it and make conclusions…
Well! To fully understand a Saint’s spirit it is needed to be a Saint, something which honestly…
Sometimes I keep thinking if real happiness has forcefully to be related with the presence of God or not.
Each Sunday hen I go to the church, I will hear the words : “Our archbishop, the truly happy one”
I’ve been always thinking about that, I’ve been wondering: “Is he really living in a constant happiness?” Something used to tell me that those words couldn’t just come out from nothing, just like a fake tittle, there must be a real reason why they say so.
One Sunday, not far from now, a priest died. He was an extraordinary person. He has done a lot for Albania and was a very great friend of the archbishop.I haven’t had the possibility to him myself but I’ve heard of him.
That Sunday I just couldn’t see anywhere the shining archbishop’s face as usual till at the end of the liturgy I saw him wearing in black. He gave us himself the bad news and he did that almost in tears. He was holding himself, but those tears was so bitter to my. He was destroyed, because he had the most love and admiration for his good friend, who was now gone.
I immediately thought about when I lost someone I loved that much too.
I am sure that if God wants to give us some lessons he hits us where it really hurts.
The next Sunday I would have had the my answer…
It was the time when the liturgy was over he was spreading the wafer to us. That would have been the moment when I’d have had the possibility to see him by close and know.
His face wasn’t in pain. He looked calmed and in peace. I suddenly thought about wishing him a happy day, and so I did. I immediately saw his face shining again. He spoke in greek to me, because he is greek, and than he wished the same to me. I don’t understand a word in greek but at least I could understand his happiness.
I am starting to believe Paulo that Happiness and Love are very best friends.
You might think about those who are lost. The love we have always had for them doesn’t make us really happy when we loose them. Thank God I still have my parents alive and my dear sisters who cam make my day a living miracle because of the love we have. I have no children, which by the way I might loose and feel forever unhappy, I don’t know if I could, but it seems that the love that we share for those who still live in this world can make us happy, and the more we learn to give this love the more happy we are.
I am repeating the fact that the lost I had left a great mark in me and a huge hollow in my soul. That person was someone who used to hold my whole being, and to read my soul without needing me to tell my problems. God! I never believed I would have lost that person so soon. Never!
But one other thing I would have never believed is the fact that I could have been really happy again, but now I am. Not because I went over that person, or because I have everything I want, or because my dreams are coming true, but because of LOVE.
The joyful archbishop’s face was a sign to me…
To make me see that compared to love, our wishes, dreams, thought, etc. turn into ashes and then into nothing.
Maybe Jesus really meant this when he said : “Do not love this world!” Not for making us or our dreams seem truly miserable but because there is something which stand above all of these, which really matters.
I had just a sign to believe in, but still I don’t know for sure.

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