2007-06-15 07:49:42 · 22 answers · asked by n 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
That is not easy to do because concerns about our daily lives and problems keep getting in the way. The best way is to focus on your blessings and what you have to be grateful for, and trust in a higher power to guide you and provide answers.
2007-06-22 15:51:59 · answer #1 · answered by nolajazzyguide 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to Plato, and I happen to agree, we do not achieve true happiness in this life. All we can do is work/study to be able to achieve it in the next life. For him life is a journey towards achieving true happiness.
This doesn't mean that we will not have some semblance of happiness in this life or even some insight into what true happiness is because we can get that here on the path of our journey.
2007-06-15 08:42:58 · answer #2 · answered by scotishbob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can talk about sentimental and financial stability as well as good health and a solid spiritual life. But it won't cut it. The only way to achieve true happiness is helping with all your strength other people achieve it. Because in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt "Happiness is a by-product"
2007-06-15 07:58:42 · answer #3 · answered by toroboltan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True happiness can be had now and is had from within. Happiness is not defined by some external circumstance, material possession, or pleasant experience. Happiness is an easy achievement once you truly grasp that you choose to be happy or unhappy.
2007-06-15 07:55:09 · answer #4 · answered by kenseavert 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me true happiness is pure happiness and to achieve such you don't try to do anything. If you try to achieve happiness, then you will naturally focus on what makes you unhappy trying to destroy unhappiness. Thus, leading to you being unhappy. So the key is to just do what makes you happy all the time, letting it flow naturally with little thought. This is how you can become truly happy. Just remember that natural/organic methods lead to truth, artificial/forced methods lead to the opposite/"perverted" truth.
2007-06-15 08:10:03 · answer #5 · answered by weism 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can not. It is neither true nor necessary. What you are looking for is never ending pleasure with out pain. This is an impossibility and would only destroy you as a living organism. What will you do with nonstop pleasure other than wear out and die? The search and hope for this is the very thing that is keeping you from 'true' living right now.
2007-06-15 07:56:42 · answer #6 · answered by @@@@@@@@ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freeing your self from the materialistic needs of the world. To truly see your self and love who you are, without question. To be the general good in everyone you meet.
True happiness comes from within the heart and the spirit.
2007-06-15 08:26:39 · answer #7 · answered by firedup 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me...i think when you get love from others, that's the true happiness... so love others and they will love you back.....
IT'S VERY HARD 2 ACHIEVE THAT.....
AM NOT HAPPY WITH MY LIFE!!!! IT'S A MESS!!! anyway GOOD LUCK!!!
jasmine♥
2007-06-15 07:59:05 · answer #8 · answered by jasmine♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-24 22:11:19 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."-Helen Keller A good motto to live by; overcoming all obstacles in life and still see the rainbows! I've always felt, too, if you follow the golden rule in all things, you cannot go wrong and therein lies your happiness.
2007-06-15 08:01:24 · answer #10 · answered by dawnUSA 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋