10 Things You Think Will Make You Happy – But Won't

by: MatthieuRicard

Avoid the impulses below, says scholar-healer MatthhieuRicard, and you’ll be primed for lifelong happiness.

1. Becoming rich, powerful and famous.

2. Treating the universe as if it were amail-order catalog by expecting it to gratify our every desire.

3. Yearning for the "freedom" to achieveevery last wish. This is not freedom, but being the slave of yourown thoughts.

4. Seeking too much pleasure. Pleasurablesensations soon become dull, and often become unpleasant.

5. Maliciously taking revenge on someone who hashurt you. By doing so, you become like them and poison your ownmind.

6. Assuming that any one thing will make youhappy. Such predictions usually don’t turn out to be true.

7. Expecting all praise and no criticism. Withoutcriticism, you won’t progress.

8. To vanquish all your enemies. Animosity neverbrings happiness.

9. To never face adversity. Refraining from doingso will make you weak and vulnerable.

10. Expending all your effort on taking care ofyourself alone. Altruism and compassion are the roots of genuinehappiness.

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