Setting our objectives…
When we put ourselves a goal, believe in it. Ask: Where am I? And where am I going? Everyone wants to be happy and no one wants to suffer, but very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. When We have to look for happiness outside ourselves, thinking that if we had the right house, the right car, the right job, and the right friends we would be truly happy. We spend almost all our time conform the external world, people around us, things we have…etc, trying to make it conform to our wishes. All our life we have tried to surround ourselves with people and things that make us feel comfortable, secure, or stimulated, yet still we have not found pure and lasting happiness. It is time we sought happiness from a different source. Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions. If our mind is pure and peaceful we shall be happy, regardless of our external circumstances, but if it is impure and unpe...