Aphorisms - Unhappiness/happiness

What causes the greatest happiness will cause the greatest pain. That is the law.

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Happiness, fulfilment, peace are now or they don't exist.

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Unhappiness is ignorance.

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There is no justification for unhappiness, none whatever.

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Man's history is the evolution of unhappiness.

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To rid yourself of unhappiness you must first prevent any more unhappiness from gathering in you.

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Unhappiness in you is substantial.

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If you are unhappy with your life you are avoiding responsibility for it somewhere.

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When you are unhappy, you want to be unhappy. Otherwise you would not be unhappy.

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... the almost total psychic possession of the human race...is reflected in the universal unhappiness of every man and woman – expressing itself as worry, fear, argument, heartbreak, doubt, violence, guilt, loneliness, lack of love, poverty, exploitation, business and war in any name or form.

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Imprisoned in past ignorance, man and woman pursue the impossible – striving through unhappiness to be free of unhappiness and depending on time to be free of time.

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The only news that is new and real is the news of the cause of unhappiness and how to be rid of it.

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Man's ideals about what he is and what he should do are the cause of his unhappiness.

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In deep, dreamless sleep ... we are perfectly content. Awake, we are seldom content for long.

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You do not have to try to spread joy. You'll only spread unhappiness if you try to spread joy. Like the missionaries.

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All the happiness you've ever had made you unhappy.

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I only find man and woman unhappy.

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Absence of unhappiness, is the natural state of man and woman.

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Unhappiness has well and truly matured in the human race – we've found more and more ways to be unhappy.

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Thinking is based on man's idea of good and bad and right and wrong.

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Any unhappiness or disturbance is in you alone.

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The truth is you love your unhappiness. You won't let it go. You cling to it. And your love of unhappiness is your love of the world - your attachment to what you like and dislike in it.

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Don't blame. Don't accuse. Don't tell your sad story.

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It's not all right to think. Every problem arises from thinking.

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If you think you know what you're going to do next, you're going to be unhappy. Because you mightn't do it.

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You only celebrate outside to put on some ritual or form, don't you? Every wedding is celebrated and, my god, you know where it's going don't you?

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Jesus doesn't say you're a sinner. Jesus says 'For Christ's sake wake up to yourself'

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Can you claim to be a Christian and ever think? And the answer is no. You are not a Christian if you think, for Christ said 'Take no thought'.

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How do you come down from excitement, man and woman? You come down in depression.

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