What is the secret to life?

Question

I'm trying to find happiness.

Answer 1

Bingo. You've answered your own question.

So, rephrasing your question, what is the secret to happiness? And the answer is probably irrelevant.

Consider those who question the secret to losing weight, for example. Well, no secret, it simply requires that you take in less calories than you burn. Analogously, eat less, exercise more. Armed with this "secret" many are still no more likely to change their behavior then those ignorant to this wisdom.

So, the secret to happiness? Live in the present, without regard to your failures of yesterday, or the anxiety of the uncertainty of tomorrow.

Good luck. Too many of us ultimately become deluded into believing that a 52" LCD HD television is a preferred substitute!

Answer 2

The secret to life is Yin and Yang

This is complementary opposites

You can not be happy without having been sad, If you were happy all the time you wouldn't feel happy, because it would just be the same old boring what you always are.

Throw in a few real bad times, and you know what happy is.

So you have a life and all is not going to be rosy, but it is the only life you will get, so try your best to make things go well for yourself and people around you, stop and pat a dog, smell a flower, enjoy a sunset, and smile at a child. Life is good, you just have to make an effort to see and understand this.

Answer 3

The secret to life is understanding that we are the creator of our own life. It takes an open mind, a lot of courage and a real desire for liberation and persistent willingness to get there, but it is sure worth the effort. Look inward instead of outward.
Since you sound sincere, do this as a beginning. Your question states you are "trying" to find happiness. Stop trying to do anything. Write on a piece of paper instead "I am creating happiness every minute of my life". Read it frequently, even if doesn't sound true. Remember you create your own life, so state it as you want it. When you see how easy it really is, start adding other things you want to the list. Just remember, stop trying, either do it or not. Also remember to ask, writing it down is asking. You must be clear about what you want and also be bold, don't hold back. Ask for anything.
Because you are asking, you will get answers.

Answer 4

I know you will succeed in your search for happiness. As irritating as this may be to many around me I go through each day with a smile on my face and song in my heart, but it wasn't always that way by any means. Time for a George Harrison quote:
"I've lived in fear,
I've been out there,
I've been 'round and seen my share
of this sad world
And all the hate that it's stirred
I only ask that what I know,
should not be denied me now
As it's been learned,
And I have seen my life belongs to me
My love belongs to who can see it"

We all live in our own minds. For me the most important steps in becoming happy were these:
1. Make my mind a place that both I and God felt comfortable living in.
2. Practice being quiet and not distracted by the carnival of life and all of the attractions that were really a waste of time.
3. Unburden your life (less is more). Eliminate those thoughts and activities that did not belong in my life particularly those which were not compatible with my desire to self-realize the "mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16)
4. Listen to and be guided by your own inner light known in the Christian faith as the Holy Spirit. (John 14)

I wish you joy and happiness each moment of each day.

Answer 5

In truth, there is no real secret to life. People have wasted their whole lives trying to figure this out. I believe that there is no secret. Just live life how YOU think you should live it, and don't go by what others percieve as true.

Answer 6

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As you want to know the secret of life.so the decret of life is dead .because one great parsanallit say that
when you find all the secret of life then you take interst in dead because dead is the real truth and secret of life.
That dead is such type of secret of life about every one is know but live like a man who don't know about it but that is a real secret. If you want live happy so you spent your live like chiled,who don't know about any tension. ok buy

Answer 7

That there is no meaning and no purpose to/for human life.

Once you truly realize that, you are free to pursue whatever happiness you want.

PS, there is no god, and if someone thinks that "god" alone is the secret to happiness, ask Ted Haggard about that one. Or Jim Bakker.

Answer 8

Well, for one thing, get away from Yahoo Answers as fast as you can, it gets addictive. But before you go, let me help you with a wise answer - 42, there, that should do the trick.

Answer 9

God.

happiness is a momentary thing. no one is happy all the time. i believe content is the word u are looking for.

Answer 10

peace only, mental peace and satisfaction. somebodies try to get it in creative way and some others try to get it in destructive way.