The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.

Welcome, you happy warrior, to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show, where I, your rabbi, reveal how the world really works.

And one way in which the world really works is that we all find ourselves at different times a little bit down,

feeling a little less optimistic, a little less hopeful, more anxious about different things. Sometimes you're not even sure what it is

that makes you feel a bit unhappy. And that's partially why I think of you as a happy,

because you are grappling with things. You are not a tennis ball

floating down the gutter of life. No, you are a happy warrior. And so you are grappling with the forces

that resist you. The forces that work against you,

making yourself a thinner, stronger, healthier person, the forces making you, the forces

that are trying to stop you from making yourself into a better human being,

a better spouse, a better parent, a better child, a better sibling, the forces that work against you,

building up some money, building up a fortune, building up some wealth, and you are constantly at battle

against these resistive forces that try to block your progress.

That is at the heart of what being a happy warrior is all about.

And one of the most important struggles that we happy warriors go through

is with our own spirits, keeping our own optimism up,

keeping ourselves happy, keeping ourselves enthusiastic,

keeping ourselves optimistic.

Very easy to slide into a mode of negativity.

Very easy indeed.

And people seek all kinds of negativity. Very easy indeed. And people seek all kinds of mistaken antidotes to that disturbing

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