Five Simple Rules for Happiness V
Seeds XI, 20
Seed: Five Simple Rules for Happiness V
I read the germs for the next five Seeds in a catalogue.
Five Simple Rules for Happiness. The fifth is . . . Expect less.
So now, you start this path toward happiness with a free heart and a free mind and simple living and giving more. What’s the icing on the cake? Expect less.
That’s right. Expect less. This works in a stupendous way on Earth. When we expect less, we are delighted more. Expectations often carry within them outlines for what we think we want. What that means is that sometimes when our dreams come true right before our eyes, we miss it. Why? Because it hasn’t arrived in the package we thought it ought to.
This is why mystics of all disciplines recommend that we figure out what we want (with a free heart, this is pretty easy), ask (a worry-free mind is a fearless mind), let go (live simply), be grateful (give more), and let go again (expect less).
This was the Google quote-of-the-day as I finished this series of five Seeds:
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. Robertson Davies
True happiness isn’t something to seek. It’s something to allow to find you.
Be joy,
Susan Corso
Dr. Susan Corso
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May 15, 2009 9:34 am
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