The Meaning of Happiness

asks it to be borne in mind that every human being speaks a different language and that sometimes it seems as if words were made to conceal thoughts.

namely the philosophy of ancient Asia and certain aspects of modern psychology.

does not name a single thing which one can do in order to become happy.

happiness of the profoundest kind is beyond the reach of any technique under the sun.

When this is realized in fact, and, I repeat, not in theory alone, there comes into being that state of liberation or release from self-tension which is the meaning of moksha and nirvana, and Tao—the creative power of life—flows forth freely, no longer blocked by the attempt to turn it back on itself.

impossible task of self-love.

that the knower is separate from his knowledge, the known.

He suffocates from holding his breath.

So that is what millions of human beings make themselves perfectly miserable trying to do. T

It is only when you seek it that you lose it.

You cannot take hold of it, nor can you get rid of it;

While you can do neither, it goes on its own way.

You remain silent and it speaks; you speak and it is silent.

So what?