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Happiness

Happiness comes when you are not seeking it
Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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You feel happy if you get what you want
As long as you can get what you want, you feel happy. But if you cannot get what you want, unhappiness begins.
—KRISHNAMURTI
Krishnamurti at Rajghat 1952, Talk 10
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What is happiness and is happiness is something of which you are conscious? The moment you are conscious that you are happy, that you have much, is that happiness? The moment you are conscious that you are happy, it is not happiness, is it? So you cannot go after happiness. The moment you are conscious that you are humble, you are not humble. So happiness is not a thing to be pursued; it comes. But if you seek it, it will evade you.

We think pleasure is happiness
Most of us think pleasure is happiness, and the greatest pleasure we consider to be the greatest happiness.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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Pleasure which we pursue is mistakenly called happiness, but can you pursue happiness as you pursue pleasure? We must be very clear as to whether pleasure is happiness. Pleasure is gratification, satisfaction, indulgence, entertainment, stimulation. Most of us think pleasure is happiness, and the greatest pleasure we consider to be the greatest happiness.

Recognition is not happiness
Recognition is not happiness; to know what it is to be happy is not happiness.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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When you are aware that you are happy, is there happiness? When there is happiness, are you aware of it? Consciousness comes only with conflict, the conflict of remembrance of the more. Happiness is not the remembrance of the more. Where there is conflict, happiness is not. Conflict is where the mind is. Thought at all levels is the response of memory, and so thought invariably breeds conflict. Thought is sensation, and sensation is not happiness. Sensations are ever seeking gratifications. The end is sensation, but happiness is not an end; it cannot be sought out.

Open to the source of all happiness
To be open to the source of all happiness is the highest religion.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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