What makes you the happiest?

Question

When are you most complete and satisfied?

I'm getting the idea

Its all pretty much self centered, what was I expecting right?

Answer 1

When I'm with my family in fellowship with other believers. I am most completely satisfied when Im humbling myself and serving God, serving others, taking a couple of inner city kids to a baseball game for the first time, showing love to a poor family by giving them my furniture. It seems so counter-intuitive, giving up yourself and not lifting up yourself, but God's ways are not our ways

Answer 2

When I know I have done my best at some work or given my all to some situation. I am most complete when I take time to examine my life and my choices, and feel that I am living life to the fullest.

Answer 3

you wanna know what makes ME the happiest?

-being with my family and friends
-knowing that I'll be serving this great country with honor and pride.. enlisting in the army in less than a month, is what I'm MOST looking forward to.

Answer 4

What is Happiness?
What is happiness? Happiness is a pleasant feeling in the mind. I eat a sweet. It brings a pleasant sensation to my mind. I hear good music that I like. This brings a pleasant sensation in mind. I call all this happiness. When, again, I eat the same sweet, and hear the same music when a tragedy has occurred in my life, I don’t enjoy it. If my relative has passed away, and if someone plays the same music that I like most, I will say: ‘Stop it! I hate this!’ The same music fails to bring joy and happiness.

So happiness is something which is personal—which is totally dependent on the person concerned. That is, happiness is subjective and not objective. The same person, place or thing that brought happiness at one time, may bring misery at another. Why does this happen? This happens because we are responsible for our happiness or sorrow, and not the external objects of the world. We think that somebody brings joy, this person brings misery, etc. All this is not true. The external persons, places, and things are only stimuli. These stimuli affect the brain and bring joy or sorrow in us, depending upon our state of mind. Thus, all our so-called loves, hates, ambitions, dislikes, successes, failures, and so on are for our own sake, created by us. When we say we love or hate others, it is for our own sake. It is a truth according to Hinduism that all that we do is for acquiring bliss for ourselves.

This introduction brings us to the concept of happiness in Hinduism.

HINDUISM ON HAPPINESS

Hinduism has these things to say about happiness:

(a) Ordinarily what we call happiness [sukha] and misery [duhkha] are relative experiences. They are termed dvandvas—dualities.

(b) We must rise above these dualities in order to discover and experience real happiness.

(c) Where do we find this real happiness? It is inherent within each one of us. Where is it located? It is not located as such: it is we ourselves. Ourselves? Oh, yes, we are of the nature of bliss. What does this mean? We are bliss. Our nature is one of immortal bliss. We have forgotten this simple truth.

(d) Then, what is this experience which we are calling happiness? This so-called happiness is only a faint reflection, a little spark of the brilliant sun of bliss which is hidden within. This is only a shadow of that eternal bliss that is waiting to be exposed. Our so-called happiness and misery now, are nothing but different states of mind. In the Bhagavad Gita (5.21), it is said: ‘He who is unattached to the external world and its objects, and is attached to the inner Self, will attain supreme happiness, which is everlasting.’

(e) Real happiness, called ānanda in Sanskrit, is the goal of all beings. All are seeking that goal only—some ignorantly, some with knowledge.

Therefore, according to all the different philosophies of Hinduism—Yoga, Vedanta, Samkhya, dualists, non-dualists—our goal is to transcend dualities like happiness and misery and reach the state of supreme Bliss. It is in that state that we get real bliss. Until then, we are only passing through different states of mind.

We may restate the ideas in the form two or three simple laws:

1. Seek what is true and lasting.

2. The more you seek what is true and lasting, the more you go nearer to the source of supreme, everlasting Bliss, which is within you.

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Answer 5

when after much work and fretting i'm able to release a wounded or orphaned wild critter back into the wild. to watch a fawn i've raised sprint off into the forest or a bird i've salvaged take flight bring tears of joy to my eyes.

PS. thumbs down on helping hurt and orphaned animals? some folks have their heads shoved firmly up their rectums.

Answer 6

When I have a new book of religious information in my possession and I can begin its study. It doesn't even matter what religion it is.

Answer 7

Being with my family, relatives and friends. That's the one thing i always look forward to.

Answer 8

When I have finished eating a great delicious meal !!!

Answer 9

Getting rid of the annoying gas bubble that is currently in my tummy.

Answer 10

knowing that i'm on the right way
being healthy
believing in Allah and his prophets
knowing there's a big reward from Allah waiting for me