AUMISM
Towards a Better World
Reflections to shed light on the questions of our time.
REFLECTIONS
Towards a Better World #64
2 March 2024
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Being happy today…
The upheavals of the world are calls for happiness.
More than ever, they make social justice a planetary emergency, to guarantee everyone the material security that is indispensable to each person’s happiness.
They cry out for paths towards peace: the legitimate happiness of protecting all the children of the Earth from hatred…
They proclaim that nature needs to live happily in order, in turn, to make human beings happy.
They shatter the mirage of a perishable happiness that is bought and consumed, ceaselessly drawing those who covet it outside themselves.
The upheavals of the world also push us to find within ourselves the strength… to resist them:
“The secret of deep happiness, says Lord HAMSAH MANARAH, lies in the greatest self-mastery and in the harmonious development of the being, the cultivation of the mind and love of one’s neighbour. The more one is master of oneself, the stronger one is in the face of trials.” (Le Yoga de la Vie pratique, p. 235)
Developing this strength makes it easier to overcome one’s own difficulties in order to help others. This gives meaning to life, whatever happens:
“All those who are happy are so because they have sought the happiness of others.”
A nod for anyone who wants to make a fresh start towards the happiness of loving: the International Day of Happiness (set on 20 March by the UN) coincides, in the northern hemisphere, with the first day of spring!
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