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Vol. 8a, Sufi Teachings
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The Tuning of the Heart (1)
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Seeking Happiness
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Vol. 8a, Sufi Teachings
The Tuning of the Heart (1)
Seeking Happiness
We also confuse pleasure and happiness. Sometimes we say pleasure for happiness, or happiness for pleasure. In reality very few in this world know what happiness means.
- Pleasure is the shadow of happiness, for pleasure depends upon things outside ourselves.
- Happiness comes from within ourselves.
- Happiness belongs to the heart quality.
- Pleasure to the outer world.
- The distance between pleasure and happiness is as vast as that between earth and heaven.
As long as the heart is not tuned to its proper pitch one will not be happy. That inner smile which shows itself in a man's expression, in his atmosphere, that belongs to happiness. If position were taken away and wealth were lost in the outer life, that inner happiness would not be taken away. And the smiling of the heart depends upon the tuning of the heart, the heart must be tuned to that pitch where it is living.
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