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Happiness
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To expect happiness without giving up negative action is like holding your hand in a fire and hoping not to be burned. Of course, no one actually wants to suffer, to be sick, to be cold or hungry -- but as long as we continue to indulge in wrong doing we will never put an end to suffering. Likewise, we will never achieve happiness, except through positive deeds, words, and thoughts. Positive action is something we have to cultivate ourselves; it can be neither bought nor stolen, and no one ever stumbles on it just by chance.



-- H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones, page 1.

Happiness is the colour in which we view the world clouded by a veil by our own inabitions and fleeting emotions. Onus is upon oneself to find and define it, I can't help but question whether such tireless persistence is worth the end result?