you're as ________ as you think you are

having things and being happy are two different things.

1.) it can be right in front of you, everything you wanted, but if you're not convinced in your own heart/mind that you are happy, you will be miserable.

2.) on the other hand, you can have what some would consider a ''shit life'' but can be convinced that you are truly happy in it.

a person is rich in proportion to the things he is willing to live without.

100% of people who live will die. the things that make you cry the happy tears on your deathbed can't be bought with money.

And really, the ''things'' that make you cry happy tears on your deathbed aren't ''things'' at all. they're ideas.

happiness, or more accurately, your state of mind, has effects on the physical world, not the other way around.

That which you imagine, feeling its end, will bring itself about. your imagination is creative. it creates what you live: happy or sad.

disagree? well it sure isn't gold that makes you happy ;-) it isn't a bunch of ppl who make you happy either. you know you can be surrounded by lots of friends, and yet feel all alone.

you also know you can talk to just one really good friend, and they don't say a word, and you feel better. what has that good friend done to make you feel better? nothing. absolutely nothing. the ''healing'' took place in your mind, in your perception of your friend. it all depended on what you were convinced of.

you are convinced of the truths that govern your life, and that is the only thing that makes them true. yes, the line is drawn in some places; proving that there is an absolute truth** that keeps everything within certain boundaries. but as far as having a happy and successful life are concerned, it's what you imagine, feeling its accomplishment, that shows itself on the screen of your ''life movie.''




** Note: absolute truth has been dealt with in the previous entry ''perception is delusion.''