#400 Stop Chasing Happiness (Are We There Yet?)
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Stop Chasing Happiness
Are we there yet? Chasing happiness can cause a plethora of unhappiness because we seek something permanent in an impermanent world. Seeking no adversity will cause suffering. Instead, wish for the fortitude to withstand any hardship, and happiness will be there.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness Podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Have you ever had a really good day or perhaps even a few hours that just went amazing. |
| 0:16.7 | These can be such beautiful experiences that we hang on to them, we cherish them throughout our lives. |
| 0:25.0 | Perhaps it's our wedding. |
| 0:27.0 | Perhaps it's a really good day on vacation. |
| 0:30.0 | Perhaps it's an achievement that we went, something that's just wonderful that we worked really |
| 0:36.2 | hard at, and now we're reveling in the success of that achievement. |
| 0:41.4 | And they truly are wonderful. But the problem with them is they don't |
| 0:47.0 | last. They go away and then the challenges of life return. |
| 0:53.0 | And they return again. |
| 0:55.0 | And they seem to keep coming back. |
| 0:57.0 | We get cleared of some disease, we recover from some injury. |
| 1:01.0 | And a few months or years later we're fighting off something else. |
| 1:06.3 | It's like at the end of the month we pay our bills, we clean our homes and everything is in order, and then a few hours or a few days later it |
| 1:16.7 | starts becoming a mess again we get new bills we get new expenses and life |
| 1:21.4 | just continues as a struggle. |
| 1:23.0 | We've fallen love, we meet our soulmate, |
| 1:27.0 | and at first it's so beautiful. |
| 1:30.0 | And then time happens, We get in a fight. He or she does something wrong. We're hurt. We have |
| 1:38.6 | kids. We have less time for each other. We have to work in order to pay our bills and when our partner comes |
| 1:45.8 | home at the end of the day he or she is tired and they just don't want to connect |
| 1:51.2 | with us. The same person that not long ago we were so in love with and everything was perfect. |
| 2:00.0 | Or sometimes as we journey through life, we meet that wise guru that person that has so much to teach us and seems so wise. |
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