What do we know about happiness

 Many people believe that happiness is having fun at a party, the excitement of new experiences, the thrill and passion of sex, or the delights of a fine meal.

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These are all wonderful experiences to be cherished and cultivated but they are not happiness. These experiences are the definition of pleasure.

Pleasure is fleeting and must be if it is to continue to please us because if we have these joyful experiences all the time, our brains adapt and turn pleasure into routine. Once that happens, it takes even more to make us feel good again. Chasing pleasure is not happiness.

So, What is happiness?

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"Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."- Aristotle

Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you.

Happiness comes when you feel contented and fulfilled .How happy can we be, depends on how we choose to act and think.

Happiness is a choice. We are as happy as we want to be. The irony of the fact is that we do not know the simple procedure. We postpone our happiness to conditions like “I will be happy when…..”. All of us, for whom happiness is conditional to external circumstances, are doing nothing but postponing our happiness. The only difference between a happy person and an unhappy person is that a happy person is happy for what he is and an unhappy person is unhappy for what he wants to be.

The illusion or “Maya” of happiness is that once everything I have what I want, I will be happy. The reality is that once I am happy, I will have everything.

Its upto u to DEFINE "Happiness".

Let us close our eyes, take three deep breaths. Let us ask ourselves on which part of the circle do we dwell on? What we want or what we don’t want? Lets only focus. Lets live only on that part what we want. Let us feel that we can add our experiences, our knowledge, feelings, country wisdom and anything that we know. Let us ask to the world community for anything that we want to know about happiness. Let’s engage!