The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.?

Answer 1

Very true, happiness is about appreciating what you have instead of what you don't :o)

Answer 2

Seeking happiness in the distance is waiting for the day -in the future- when things are "right" and then one will be happy. For example, when I gratuate I will be happy. When I marry I will be happy.

Conversely the wise man knows the only moment is now and it is a precious gift full of potential. In each moment of now we pave the path to our distant future. The foolish man does not know this and thus wants to leap ahead without taking steps that are well planted.

Answer 3

If only people understood this statement! You have just put into words how i live my life. Thankyou! I am going to annoy a lot of people with this over the next couple of weeks. Is it a quote from someone?

Answer 4

Doesn't even have to grow it. The wise man just looks and it's there.

Answer 5

But he who stands still learns change only through the tales of the traveller

Answer 6

We don't need to search out happiness, just understand that its a way of thinking and not based on material things. Who wants moss anyway? (unless you own a football team, I suppose)

Answer 7

The grass is not necessarily greener on the other side

Answer 8

To become wise, first you must understand and be the fool.

Answer 9

Ahhh, but a rolling stone gathers no moss

Answer 10

This is true as no secrets, surprises, dreams, wishes or evenings or days of empty sunrises would ever do me happy, and keep me so for long, not more than a day or two, or perhaps a week. For often all instances of me being prove to be transient and temporary, and when sometimes I do feel happy, happiness always leaves me in need to being ever so more happier; all my moments of happiness, in all my wishful thinking, in my expectations and in my hopes raise the standards of my happiness ever so much higher.

I often run into illusions in the fashion of children, who would run after colourful butterflies and excite themselves by the flurry of water bubbles flying weightlessly mid air. The butterflies fly away, and water bubbles burst upon a mere touch. Then I have seen the glow of many a beautiful days rising out of fast receding dark curtain of a passing night. I have rested upon my plans, relied upon my courage and understanding, upon my will and the sternest possible resolves I have banked for so long that whenever I achieved success at last, the best I found was some relief and even that marred by the weariness of so much hard work.

So, true happiness I had seldom known, and thoughts of true joy I thought are but fancies of an idle or over ambitious mind. I thought my life would always be a chore, a meaningless grind of efforts bound to a wheel to torture leading me to an early old age and then to an end. Until one day, when I realised that happiness is a trust, trust in things that I knew would be in my grasp always, things that I know if I do will undoubtedly make me, if not happy at times, but satisfied and content. I then learn to teach myself just that that by always trying to do things that I could rely upon would ultimately raise a happy person in me – just like raising a child to become an adult capable of success in life … that was the revelation … that happiness is nowhere to found but within, as a happy person … only if I do raise myself to be a happy person from the inside.

Then even the simplest and trivial things started to make their sense into my newly developed understanding. I know that there was a time when I use to smoke, and it was always a relief to even think of a cigarette. Since I always knew I can light a cigarette anytime so I relied upon them; I knew what to do in order to get instant relief from stress and boredom. But that is just for the sake of an example as there are things in life that if we make part and parcel of our life then I think we can build a pattern of routines and practice to ensure happy times. If so then when we would not be happy at least we would know that we could bring it on, and where it is to be found.

If for instance you have a friend who you could go to for some good time that fact alone would make the rest of the time of your life somewhat happy time. Or lets suppose you have children, are they not your investments into your happiness, or your family? You know, there are things to always make you feel happy. The same is the truth about acts of prayer. People regulate themselves over a period of time according to their beliefs then it starts to work for them. In the long run they can be certain that such and such experience is good for them, so they learn to stick to those experiences, and try to repeat them ever so more earnestly.

We are surrounded by uncertainties in life, and it is this element of uncertainty that is most likely to make us unhappy, or perplexed enough to spoil whatever happiness we might earn. We do not how long any state of being happy in going to last, as we like happiness to last forever. And then when feeling unhappy, we do not know when happiness is going to come knocking at our door next. If we reduce this element of uncertainty in our life, and reformat our habits and routines to allow in some certainty then we could become a person not merely waiting for happiness most of the time, but a person with a happy way of living.