In Search of Happiness

Happiness:

We rarely feel it.
I would buy it,
beg it,
steal it,
Pay in coins of dripping blood
For this one transcendent good.

-Amy Lowell

A Picture is worth a Thousand Words

What do you feel when you look at this pic?

A warm tingling feeling -

is it
Love
Lust
Longing
Fulfilled
All Knowing?

How can you express in words what you see here?
Can you even describe it

In Search Of Guidance I Find...

When all is darkness and we feel our weakness and helplessness,
give us the sense of Your presence, Your love, and Your strength.

Help us to have perfect trust in Your protecting love and strengthening power,
so that nothing may frighten or worry us,
for living close to You, we shall see Your hand, Your purpose, Your will through all things.

- St. Ignatius of Loyola



Oh God! Thou art the Giver of Life,
Remover of pain and sorrow,
The Bestower of happiness,

Oh! Creator of the Universe,
May we receive thy supreme sin-destroying light,
May Thou guide our intellect in the right direction.

-The Gayatri Mantra

PeOplE

People, people, people, what are we thinking???

Just what are we doing to pass the time by? Why are we constantly searching for someone to share our lives with when we know we'll just get hurt - lets face it NO ONE is perfect!!!! something is bound to go wrong sooner or later. Wouldn't it just be safer to stay out and save yourself the heartache?

Just how many couples in this world get married and expect to spend the next 80 years of their lives together??? who knows how long anything lasts in this world w/ all the shit that goes on?

Things constantly change, nothing ever stays the same. So just how can you guarantee that you'll still be together after many years to come? Or is it all just a guessing game??? - Or is it just something we DO to make the time pass by?? Something we do to fill that spare time we have

How do people JUST KNOW??
What EXACTLY is it that they know? Do they know the other person won't ever do something stupid to hurt them? Do they know their partner will always be loyal? Do they know that they will spend every free moment they have together? How can they guarantee this 'all knowing' feeling will last? Nothing stays the same. Heck even the weather can change in a split second without warning.

I just don't get it