Secrets of Spiritual Happiness:

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy,
for it increases your own health and happiness.

- Zoroaster

Giving and receiving are like inhaling and exhaling your breath.

You can tell how happy somebody is by how joyfully they give.   When people are happy, they are naturally kind, patient, loving, and generous.   Don't you find that it is much easier to be kind and patient when you're happy?   If you're happy and someone takes a little extra time to go through the grocery line in front of you, it's no big deal.   You're even able to allow someone to go ahead of you if they're in a hurry or have only a few items.   Happy people are nice people.   Happy people are effortless givers.  

When you are happy, your gratitude wants to give something back, to lift someone else into happiness.   Happiness is never petty or jealous.   Happiness is loving and joyous.   Happiness wishes to see good things happen to everyone.  

If someone you know is not showing qualities of loving generosity, then - even if they seem to have more than you - your best call is to say a prayer on their behalf.   Someone who cannot give cannot truly be happy.   Even a multi-millionaire is but a pauper if he or she cannot give.

 

What can one person do?   There's something going on in your workplace, in your family, in your life, where Spirit is saying, "I've got you uniquely placed, because there's something I would do through you.   For this I have created you.   For this I have called you into being. You are free, to be and do all that God created you to be."

- Mary Manin Morrissey

 

 

One of the best ways to increase your own spiritual happiness is to help someone in the right way.   This doesn't mean helping them while thinking that they owe you anything, or thinking proudly "I am saving this person, I'm helping this person."   Rather, you can help others with a sense of humility and gratitude that God is helping them through you.   This will sanctify your gift, and will also sanctify your experience of giving.   When you learn to taste the sweetness of being a joyful giver, then you're most certainly also developing a taste for the gourmet delicacy of spiritual happiness.  

Helping somebody creates a whole different kind of feeling in your being.   If you're having a hard time in life and don't think you are feeling happy, help somebody. If you can find happiness in helping others, then you'll always be able to find some way to create happiness, in any circumstance.   When you help someone, your heart warms, and spiritual happiness shows its smiling face to you.

Try it today.   The next time you're driving and somebody wants to come into your lane, feel honored to have the opportunity to serve that person and to help him or her to safely and easefully merge into your lane. Know that divinity exists in every person, every driver, every waiter, every cashier, and every security guard.

 

See God in each other.

- Baba Muktananda

 

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