5. Be content at where you are right now
Our obsession with seeking happiness has blinded us to what happiness actually is: An emotion.
On a 17th-century tsukubai (water basin) stone at the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto, there’s an ancient inscription - "ware tada taru wo shiru,” which means “I only know contentment.”
To be content with what you have and where you are is to be grateful. To be content with what you have and where you are, while working toward what you want, and fully trusting that you can achieve it, is to be intentional. And through gratitude, intention, and action, you find happiness.
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