Today I found an interesting and cool quote about the happiness and peace:

To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind. By turning the mind’s concentration inwards, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of meditation.

– Swami Sivananda

Happiness is nothing but of living a good life, or flourishing a good life. But to achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, you must calm down yourself.

Spirituality can offer many benefits to our life. However, desires creates lots of problems. Almost all cultures are founded on the human demanding more form the life. You never get satisfied with what you have and always demands more. End result – you suffer a lot.

Ashok Vohra (department of philosophy, Delhi University) has published a nice article which explains how to balance your desires to avoid suffering:

Desires and even their fulfilment, instead of being a source of happiness might spiral so out of control that they become the root cause of suffering.

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