Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we’re unable to share in someone else’s pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person’s happiness truly jeopardizes our own, the more we pave the way for experiencing sympathetic joy Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It’s not a matter of learning techniques to “make friends and influence people.” Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Everyone smiles in the same language, Happiness knows no frontiers, no age. No difference thar makes us feel apart if a smile can win even a broken heart. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass, and that the effort to revive such happiness depletes it; that nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now--I can't hang about whining for ever--and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked and attend to your own happiness? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Your words on the screen are my color palette I dip my brush into your words and paint youOn the sky, on the ceiling, on the snow; on the tabletOf things eternal : love truth beauty happiness Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Both things are invisible But we Both are aware I colored my self in your fragranceAnd you colored your hands in my BLOOD Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>