Is happiness having nothing?

Question

what do you think? what can you say for and against it?

Answer 1

Actually, when you're happy, you have everything (that's really worth having). Happiness is a very "high frequency".

Often people who are inherently non materialistic, and thus are viewed by a shallow, corrupt, materialistic culture as having "nothing", are the most happy, assuming they have enough of the very basics. Why? Because their concerns and way of being are usually quite "high" vibrationally.

They don't dwell on competition, wealth gathering, envying others, protecting their fragile egos, etc.

Every thought, every action, every nuance of your life has a frequency level. High = happy/healthy Low = toxic/unhealthy Example: Take a look at our "powerful" figures in government, commerce and "religion". They spend all day obsessing about power and money. Most of them don't look too healthy to me--bloated in body, soul and bank account. To me they look like the portrait of Dorian Gray, itself :))

Answer 2

How many people are happy with nothing? How many people are happy if they have everything. Having or not having material things have nothing to do with happiness. Happiness comes from self-worth. If you feel like you're good for something then you're more likely to be happy. That feeling of self-worth can come different places. Dedicating your life for a cause usually helps. Dedicating your life for others is better though. The best way to feel self-worth though is to love and be loved in return. Romantic love is great, but not the only love worth living for.

Answer 3

There is an old Gaelic story of people living in misery and poverty, hungry and sick....One day Goddess comes and makes them a ship, so they can sail away to the Island of Bliss, where they will live in peace and harmony, healthy and protected...Easy-thinking they accept the ship and sail away...and never come back....Few hundred years later, some sailors come upon the Island, and knowing the story ask the Fugitives are they happy?
"Happiness, what is that?" the answer was."We dwell here, neither happy nor sad, in perfect peace and harmony,...We lack nothing, we wish for nothing... and every day is like another, so we cannot tell the difference...."
So, I think happiness isn`t about possessing, (and You can`t be at ease having absolutely nothing), think it`s about feeling whole and completed...

Answer 4

If happiness is having nothing, there is no point to life. We are playing a role in the creation of the universe. When we are doing our part which is known innately within ourselves and only we know what that is, we are happy. You may have noticed happiness doesn't necessarily mean easy.
Our wants and desires are the driving force that gives us direction. Pain is what tells us we are off course. Pleasure, and that is what happiness is about, tells us we are on course.

Answer 5

You will always have your emotions, feelings, relationships. I would not be happy if I was alone. Materialism however is sad. People fill voids with clothes ect,.... its a hollow, fake happiness.

Answer 6

Happiness is losing everything you ever had, and then getting even a little bit of it back again.

Answer 7

No. Happiness is provided in many strategies. from time to time it is available interior the main unpredicted moments and for no reason in any respect, your temper is loosen up. even in spite of the undeniable fact that worry might have effect our ability to be chuffed, it isnt quite the ingredient.

Answer 8

True happiness is when your happiness does not depend on having something.

Answer 9

Happiness is living life in such a way that it can stand the greatest introspection.

Answer 10

Happiness is the absense of unhappiness.