Comments on: What Is Happiness? http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2009/11/what-is-happiness/ Cultivating a community through the exploration of magical living and spiritual evolution. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:01:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Alexandra http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2009/11/what-is-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-10407 Alexandra Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:04:36 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1152#comment-10407 I think happiness is something we can work at, and I don't believe in "and then they(she) lived happily ever after". I think we have to work at it everyday through the choices we make and that it's all the little moments that make up our happiness, not some huge event. Have a look at this blog entry: http://beatrizcastilloblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/working-on-our-happiness/ I think happiness is something we can work at, and I don’t believe in “and then they(she) lived happily ever after”. I think we have to work at it everyday through the choices we make and that it’s all the little moments that make up our happiness, not some huge event.
Have a look at this blog entry:
http://beatrizcastilloblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/working-on-our-happiness/

]]> By: Carrie Obry http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2009/11/what-is-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-6970 Carrie Obry Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:32:24 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1152#comment-6970 Denise - I think marriage is changing so much in our country it's hard to tell if it's a lasting source of happiness. Sierra Bender's message is universal to all women. Look within. Love yourself first. Sol, maybe that's the awareness you're talking about. Denise – I think marriage is changing so much in our country it’s hard to tell if it’s a lasting source of happiness. Sierra Bender’s message is universal to all women. Look within. Love yourself first. Sol, maybe that’s the awareness you’re talking about.

]]> By: Sol Blanco http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2009/11/what-is-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-6833 Sol Blanco Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:43:36 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1152#comment-6833 Very impressed by Paet's answer. Am I a witch? At 63 I am also at my happiest and fealing younger than when I was supposed to be young! I learnt the difference between'struggle' and 'effort' and the excitement of building my life from awareness. I found this blog with many clues, what do you thik of it?http://beatrizcastilloblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/working-on-our-happiness/ Very impressed by Paet’s answer. Am I a witch? At 63 I am also at my happiest and fealing younger than when I was supposed to be young! I learnt the difference between’struggle’ and ‘effort’ and the excitement of building my life from awareness. I found this blog with many clues, what do you thik of it?http://beatrizcastilloblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/working-on-our-happiness/

]]> By: Denise http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2009/11/what-is-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-6716 Denise Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:59:42 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1152#comment-6716 Here I am, late to the game. But I am glad I found this post as it is the right time for me to read it. I am struggling with my happiness. I've been divorced about six months but separated for over a year. I thought my marriage was the problem. And, while it was part of the problem, I now realize it was not and is not the entire problem. I need to work on myself -- to feel happy again, to feel balanced, to feel like I am me. Carrie -- have you read the book and did you like it? Did you learn anything from it? Here I am, late to the game. But I am glad I found this post as it is the right time for me to read it. I am struggling with my happiness. I’ve been divorced about six months but separated for over a year. I thought my marriage was the problem. And, while it was part of the problem, I now realize it was not and is not the entire problem. I need to work on myself — to feel happy again, to feel balanced, to feel like I am me.

Carrie — have you read the book and did you like it? Did you learn anything from it?

]]> By: Carrie Obry http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2009/11/what-is-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-3574 Carrie Obry Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:15:46 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1152#comment-3574 Paet - Wow, I'm glad you are owning all your talents, even if it took awhile. People are their most beautiful when they embrace exactly who they are. Paet – Wow, I’m glad you are owning all your talents, even if it took awhile. People are their most beautiful when they embrace exactly who they are.

]]> By: Paet http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2009/11/what-is-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-3525 Paet Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:10:52 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1152#comment-3525 Nearing 63 years old I am now the happiest I have ever been. It took me over 50 years to finally admit to myself that I an a witch. I fought the tings that other witches told me - I was only 13 when it began - and I sadly saw witchcraft as being mixed in with the devil! I had no body to teach me and there were few books to read. I will admit that I was born into witch craft from my mother's side (Irish) - ancestors were tea leaf readers and banshee wailers to name a few of their callings. I was born with the caul. As a child I felt out of it for I hear things and saw things that my friends didn't. By the time I hit my teens I learned to hide my "powers". Then this past Feb. a Latino witch told me that I was indeed a "bruja". I fought this for several months and the logical non witch lost the battle. I am now free to catch up on things and get back to that world I almost left behind. A witch friend of mine, many years ago told me that witches are born old and as the age numerically they bvecome young (youthen?) and so it is for me. I am now comfortable with myself and will follow my solitary "family" path and not try to fit in to the mundane world. Now that I have taken up the craft again, there is just too much to do - I AM HAPPY! I will not have to hide my abilities - I will now happily use then to help others! Maybe mundanes get unhappy as they age - but I don't think witches do. Nearing 63 years old I am now the happiest I have ever been. It took me over 50 years to finally admit to myself that I an a witch. I fought the tings that other witches told me – I was only 13 when it began – and I sadly saw witchcraft as being mixed in with the devil! I had no body to teach me and there were few books to read. I will admit that I was born into witch craft from my mother’s side (Irish) – ancestors were tea leaf readers and banshee wailers to name a few of their callings. I was born with the caul. As a child I felt out of it for I hear things and saw things that my friends didn’t. By the time I hit my teens I learned to hide my “powers”. Then this past Feb. a Latino witch told me that I was indeed a “bruja”. I fought this for several months and the logical non witch lost the battle. I am now free to catch up on things and get back to that world I almost left behind.
A witch friend of mine, many years ago told me that witches are born old and as the age numerically they bvecome young (youthen?) and so it is for me. I am now comfortable with myself and will follow my solitary “family” path and not try to fit in to the mundane world. Now that I have taken up the craft again, there is just too much to do – I AM HAPPY! I will not have to hide my abilities – I will now happily use then to help others!
Maybe mundanes get unhappy as they age – but I don’t think witches do.

]]> By: lada http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2009/11/what-is-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-3512 lada Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:45:24 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1152#comment-3512 the self-indulgent longing for the happiness I *HAD* is the stumbling block to owning all the blessings that surround me. Having just turned 50, it is a good time to hone perspective. the self-indulgent longing for the happiness I *HAD* is the stumbling block to owning all the blessings that surround me. Having just turned 50, it is a good time to hone perspective.

]]> By: Carrie Obry http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2009/11/what-is-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-3454 Carrie Obry Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:15:10 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1152#comment-3454 Mary - Wow is right! It sounds like you've had a remarkable journey to drawing your own conclusions about yourself and your place in the world. Mary – Wow is right! It sounds like you’ve had a remarkable journey to drawing your own conclusions about yourself and your place in the world.

]]> By: Carrie Obry http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2009/11/what-is-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-3453 Carrie Obry Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:10:47 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1152#comment-3453 Lada - Your response is really thoughtful. I know what you mean, but why would any of us not allow in as much happiness as possible? Lada – Your response is really thoughtful. I know what you mean, but why would any of us not allow in as much happiness as possible?

]]> By: Mary Carter http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2009/11/what-is-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-3227 Mary Carter Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:13:20 +0000 http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/?p=1152#comment-3227 I am 2 months from 60 so here I am looking at really owning my power! WOW in our culture women are told that they are old wrinkly, and only good to be Grandma or the wife of so and so...not me I have have just found what I call My "CORE" the true me. the part of me that is not defined or created by anyone else. The inner child that has grown up and can still be a child. WAKE UP! women of the world and get it! You are only you and so be you reclaim your true self and you can still be other things that others see you as ...It is only important what you see yourself as! You are the one who CHOOSES to see you or not. I am 2 months from 60 so here I am looking at really owning my power! WOW in our culture women are told that they are old wrinkly, and only good to be Grandma or the wife of so and so…not me I have have just found what I call My “CORE” the true me. the part of me that is not defined or created by anyone else. The inner child that has grown up and can still be a child.
WAKE UP! women of the world and get it! You are only you and so be you reclaim your true self and you can still be other things that others see you as …It is only important what you see yourself as! You are the one who CHOOSES to see you or not.

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