Happiness and unhappiness are not dependent on external circumstances.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in things external; our glad or sad states depend upon our reaction to these external things.

Actually, things do not matter; what matters is our view of things; all depends upon how we look at things.

Therefore, in final analysis, the importance is of the individual, and not of the object: the importance is of yourself, and not the object you possess.

Hence, so to say, happiness or unhappiness reside within us. Epictectus has said: ’If you are unhappy, know for sure that you yourself are the cause of it.’

I would say the same thing. We are the cause of our misery,because whatever we are, we have made ourselves such.

Please bear in mind this truth, because you cannot transform your life without it.

If you feel unhappy, know that something is wrong with your
viewpoint.

A miserable life is the result of a wrong way of looking at things; and a happy life is the result of a right approach to life.

If the mental attitude does not change with your proposed change in circumstances, you may not feel any more happy than at present.

Please try to search for the cause of your unhappiness within yourself, not without, whenever you feel miserable.

And then, gradually, you will discover the causes of your unhappiness, hidden in your own reactions; then a new life will start for you.

He who seeks for faults outside, goes astray; he who sees for them in himself, is sure to succeed in transcending them.

OshO ❤️
The Great Challenge💜