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I have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow.
-Lisa Kleypas
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Lisa Kleypas
I have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow.
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Recently, one friend asked me, "how can i force myself to smile when i am filled with sorrow? it isn't natural." i told her she must be able to smile to her sorrow, because we are more than our sorrow. a human being is like a television set with millions of channels. if we turn the buddha on, we are the buddha. if we turn sorrow on then we are sorrow. if we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. we can not let just one channel dominate us. we have the seed of everything in us, and we have to seize the situation in our hand, to recover our own sovereignty.
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So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. i'm not happy. i don't know what's wrong. if i just had another job, i could be happy. if i just get married, i would be happy. well if i just wasn't married, i would be happy. well, if i just had some kids, i'll be happy. i'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. if i had a bigger house, i would be happy. well, i got a big house. now if i just had a maid to clean, i'd be happy. well, now if i just had a maid i could get along with better, i'd be happy.
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Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. and yet a sorrow for which there can be no help is no sorrow. it is some dark sister traveling in sorrow's clothing. men do not turn from god so easily you see. not so easily. deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. to imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. it was never that this man ceased to believe in god. no. it was rather that he came to believe terrible things of him.
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Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. if we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and if we are suspicious of ecstasy, agony can never reach us either. joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth.
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Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. it is already there. whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for him or her. can you tell me that you cannot smile? think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. please don't tell me that a smile and your sorrow just don't go together. it's your sorrow, but what about your baby? it's not his sorrow, its not her sorrow.
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You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. all terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live not to mention love.
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