Table of contents hide 1 2) The other source of happiness is love of oneself. 2 So when I grab a camera or a musical instrument it is to allow myself to enjoy that gift I have and express it. 3 Then the egoist seeks to be well in the sense of self-benefit, without thinking of anyone and living for himself, that is the selfish. 4 We teach what we know but we spread what we live. 5 3) And now something very important is another SOURCE of happiness, which we hardly understand, that's why I ask for your full attention. It is GRATITUDE. 6 Tell me how much you thank and I will tell you how happy you are. 7 Therefore, happiness does not happen because there are no problems, happiness goes through the DIGNITY of how you live the moments when you have problems. 8 4) And we go to the fourth source of happiness that has to do with INTIMITY. 9 Intimacy gives happiness, superficiality does not give happiness.

2) The other source of happiness is love of oneself.

When you love yourself, you are happy . But it is so difficult to understand this. What does that mean that happiness is the fruit of self-love? When we do something, which makes us feel fuller, that gives us happiness.

Every activity I do, to grow as a person, gives me happiness . Happiness is like an inner state that causes me to have done something that makes me great as a person . Then you will see that when you read something, which impacts you, you will say “I really feel happier” because now I have a clarity that I did not have before.

When I studied that, when I learned that other, when I dedicate myself to activities that nourish me, they can be physical, sports, but lived from another place . Not from the momentary pleasure of playing sports. No, no, no, but to do this sport or this activity because it does me good. Because I feel that really, I am loving myself, I am loving myself by allowing myself this .

When I make a trip, it touches my soul, and I had to have money, tempo, etc. but I do it because I know that that nourishes me, it does me good. One feels a happiness that cannot be believed, everyone who has experience with Lucia or with me on trips feels the same. When we had time to meet with us in silence, in the fraternity of other people, in hugs, in the contemplation of sunrises and sunsets, I suddenly realized that I take care of myself, I am dedicating myself to myself. I am nurturing myself.

So when I grab a camera or a musical instrument is to allow myself to enjoy that gift that I have and express it.

Yes, that is happiness. That has to do with happiness, a happiness that is born, as I tell you from the expression or the desire to love myself, from the search for personal love so it has nothing to do with the ego. How . Because love for oneself is to want my own good, my own good is always my full development. When what I do makes me feel full, it makes me happy.

Then the egoist seeks to be well in the sense of self-benefit, without thinking of anyone and living for himself, that is the selfish.

He who loves himself instead, is the one who makes a tremendous effort and dedication to develop all the best he has . Loving oneself is always a huge job, because you have to give up things that don't do me good and put time and money and in activity that does me well and that I have to grow.

Of course someone would say "no happiness is to be having a quiet time without any complications . " No, that is not happiness, that is, we return again, moments of pleasure . True happiness is felt when what I am doing or what I am living is for my nutrition for my personal growth as a person, which then makes it food for others.

More than once, when you do something very nice, for example, to play a musical instrument because it is good for me, because I feel it is a gift that I express, everyone around me applauds me. If I don't want to, I do good to others when I am loving myself well . Because when one loves oneself and develops his own gifts and nourishes himself in life, he infects others.

So when you do something that really gratifies you as a person and gives you happiness, you spread them to others.

We teach what we know but we spread what we live.

There are many parents who say many things, but spread an unhappiness . There are many people who teach children very beautifully as they have to be but with a face of sadness, bitterness and terrible hostility.

When you see a happy person, whatever he tells you is going to like him, because really his happiness is the best testimony that he is growing as a person . And do not associate happiness with a pathetic mask image of being well. You realize immediately, you scratch a little, because happiness is inner, instead that makeup face of happiness, nothing lasts. You realize.

Sometimes we do that we are well, because we believe that others need that . The others are not fools. The first ones to realize are our children, they realize that you are not happy and you are trying to.

So then everything that is nutritious for us, that is a source of happiness.

3) And now something very important is another SOURCE of happiness, which we hardly understand, that's why I ask for your full attention. It is GRATITUDE.

Gratitude is to live every moment, here and now, thanking you for it . Gratitude is a source of happiness, I have not seen a grateful and unhappy person.

But not only the gratitude of one good act of another, you gave me something and as a courtesy I return my gratitude. No, no, it's not that, that would be a social thanks . I speak louder, I speak of an existential gratitude, like thanking, it is not a conventional issue, it is an existential attitude.

Tell me how much you thank and I will tell you how happy you are.

My grandmother said it differently - a grateful person is well born . But why did he say that? because if a grateful person is well born, it is because he lives well. Thanking is the pleasure of being . We must not look for reasons, the gratitude of which I speak does not happen for an external reason, it happens to feel that everything that happens to you is valuable. And when you feel that everything that happens to you is valuable, you feel permanent gratitude .

Moreover, if something happens to you that is not valuable because you are suffering in something, how crazy it would be to say this phrase, I address it to God for a spiritual issue, but I can do it differently Lord I thank you, because I know that this moment that I am going through is going to lead me to a teaching or to realize that I will be better as a person. So although at this moment I go through, I see everything black, I thank you. Because I know there is something hidden here, that if I find out I will grow up

What crazy isn't it? Say this. Because we are grateful once the problem has passed, I thank you that it has happened, it has happened, or I would appreciate it if nothing happens. But thank you during the process that you are living and say Lord thanks to this time that it is dark that it is difficult, that I would like it to happen, but I know that if I have to go through it, surely if I do it well there is a teaching behind.

Therefore, happiness does not happen because there are no problems, happiness goes through the DIGNITY of how you live the moments when you have problems.

You are not happy because of the absence of problems, you are happy when you learned to live that time where there is a problem. It is dignity, you have to have dignity to be wrong. If something bad happens to you, something you don't like, you have to have a lot of dignity, you don't have to leave. Of course we are not masochists, nobody wants to be wrong, but there is a dignity that has to be lived, so the secret of true happiness is not the absence of problems I insist, it is dignity as you go through it . And I tell you more if we understood that gratitude can also be there, the movie changes us, eh! .

I cannot say that I live it all the time, but if I have realized that when I say this, that I said in this case of mine, by my faith, I turn to God, but he could do it to life or as he feels . If I invoke that gratitude in the midst of difficulty, it is relieved, relieved .

And it is almost a medicine for the soul, to hold gratitude, do you understand me?

The source of happiness is gratitude, I repeat, the pleasure of being. Since I get up until I go to bed. I can fill my life with moments of gratitude.

4) And we go to the fourth source of happiness that has to do with INTIMITY.

Here I said that there are people who believe that happiness is being good with others, having fun. Here is something very different, here happiness is when I get to have an intimacy with the other . When I manage to have with the other, which is next to me, a deep unity, the intimate unity . The intimacy of friendship, the intimacy of bonds, give me a feeling of great happiness. And so then, there is a secret. When we get intimate, it's because we put three things . In the link with the other and that will be the result of another encounter. What I call the triple T, transparency, tenderness and time.

When I can be transparent with the other, I see paradise, when I can have tenderness in the encounter, when I feel welcomed, when I feel embraced by the other, and when we put time for that, when I can give time to the encounter, when We are transparent and we put tenderness, that encounter gives an impressive happiness.

Intimacy gives happiness, superficiality does not give happiness.

I can be with a lot of people all day and not understand anything I want to say, but I can spend a little time with someone and have had a meeting so rich, so nutritious, that I really felt that this is happiness. But it is not for the other, it is for the intimacy that we create between us, of which I am the protagonist, it is not accidental, I felt, I took my time, I put tenderness, and it opened.

And when that is reciprocal, that is precious . And whenever I try to make the bonds healthy, when I put my part, trying to heal the bonds, I put my part trying to have more intimacy, that makes me happy. It's not getting along, because getting along is random, but the decision for intimacy is my thing .

So when I look at you, I look at you, when I listen to you, I listen to you, when I feel with you, I feel because I get the best out of me, because I put intimacy into it.

To live my ideal, to do things that I plan and do myself well, to have a grateful attitude in life, to walk through life gratefully and to have intimacy with the people around me, there is the true source of happiness.

And in all of them I am the protagonist, it does not come from outside, it is in me. That is the central change . Then in the nakedness of which I spoke before, the nakedness that allows happiness to be given is by a personal opening, by a personal decision, it does not happen by what happens outside.

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REDACTORA: Gisela S., editor of the great family of the White Brotherhood.

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