The Secret of a Truly Happy Person | Happiness Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 731 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret of the Truly Happy Person. Edited and adapted from Mightier Than Circumstance by Frank B. Whitney.
Happiness Podcast Excerpt: A search for happiness does not always bring it, because we look for it in the same spirit that we would look for a lost purse. We believe that happiness is found when we arrive at that place where we no longer have to seek for it. When we look for happiness, we do not have it. When we cease to look for it, we discover that it is ours.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from Mightier Than Circumstance |
| 0:21.6 | by Frank B. Whitney, published in 1939. |
| 0:30.8 | There are millions of people |
| 0:35.3 | who would give almost all they possess in order to be happy. |
| 0:40.7 | They go to various places and try every conceivable method for obtaining happiness. |
| 0:47.7 | They yearn for things and think that by possessing them, happiness will come to them. |
| 0:57.0 | They turn to other people into external things, but still happiness eludes them. |
| 1:01.0 | A search for happiness does not always bring it, because we look for it in the same spirit |
| 1:08.0 | that we will look for a lost purse. |
| 1:11.8 | We believe that happiness is found when we arrive at that place in consciousness and |
| 1:16.6 | experience where we no longer have to seek for it. |
| 1:21.8 | When we look for happiness, we do not have it. |
| 1:26.2 | When we cease to look for it, we discover that it is ours. |
| 1:31.6 | The person who looks for happiness is seeking some sort of entertainment for themselves. |
| 1:38.6 | They think of themselves as a guest of the world. |
| 1:42.8 | And if its entertainment does not please them, |
| 1:45.8 | unhappiness results. |
| 1:48.7 | The happy person takes the attitude |
| 1:51.0 | that they are among the hosts |
| 1:53.1 | who provide happiness to the world, |
| 1:56.3 | and they lose themselves in directing others to happiness. |
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