Quotes IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE HAPPY?By L. Ron Hubbard Is it possible to be happy? A great many people wonder whether or not happiness even exists in this modern, rushing world … Our main problem in life is happiness. The world may or may not be designed to be a happy one. It may or may not be possible for you to be happy in this world, and yet nearly all of us have a goal to be happy and cheerful about existence. You know, very often we look at the world around us and say that nobody could be happy in this place … how could anyone possibly be happy when actually he can’t have everything he wants? He is unable to do all the things he’d like to do, and therefore, this environment doesn’t permit a person to be as happy as he could be. Well, I’ll tell you a funny thing – a lot of philosophers have said this many, many times – but the truth of the matter is that all the happiness you ever find lies in you. You remember when you were maybe five years old, and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day, and it was a very, very beautiful day, and you looked at the flowers and they were very beautiful flowers. Twenty-five years later you get up in the morning, you take a look at the flowers – they are wilted. The day isn’t a happy day. Well, what has changed? You know they are the same flowers, it’s the same world, something must have changed. Probably it was you. Actually, a little child derives all of his pleasure in life from the grace he puts upon life. He waves a magic hand and brings all manner of interesting things into being out in the society … …One’s attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one’s living. Those people who have become unhappy about life are unhappy about life solely and completely because life has ceased to be made by them. Here we have the single difference in a human being. We have here a human being who is unhappy, miserable and isn’t getting along in life, who is sick, who doesn’t see brightness. Life is handling, running, changing, making him. And here you have somebody who is happy, who is cheerful, who is strong, who finds that there is something worth doing in life, and what do we discover in this person? We find that he is making life and there is actually a single difference: Are you making life or is life making you? Now, this would be a very dreadful situation if nothing could be done about it, but the fact of the matter is that it is the easiest problem of all the problems man faces: changing himself and changing the attitudes of those around him … … The religious philosophy of Scientology came about because of a man’s increased knowledge of energy … If he knew a great deal about energy, particularly the energy of himself and the space which surrounds him, he, of course, would know himself; and that, in the final essence, has been his goal for many thousands of years. To know himself. Scientology has made it possible for him to do so. |
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