Happiness is a Choice
The admirable advice is that we can select how happy we want to be. When you feel unhappy , you automatically assume it is due to a lack of something. You currently begin to desire material things hoping it will fill that void that you feel. Maybe it's a new car, or a new house, or a new job. You begin to anticipate these things, waiting for your happiness to attain. When the quick fixes don't arrive the unhappiness still exists.
Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time — toward the same object, the same person — want to harm and want to do good.” (Matthieu Ricard)
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