Life is not misery

Everyone is miserable. Not because the nature of life is pain, but because you do not know the art of being happy. It is strange that we all want to be happy but we are all experts in making ourselves unhappy. We have devised thousands of ways of being happy, but we have not learnt the art of being happy.

On the other hand, we are miserable without learning the art to be miserable from anywhere. We are forever looking for pain. We dwell in the past and keep needling our wounds and making ourselves miserable. Or, we build castles in the air and feel miserable when our dreams are not fulfilled.

Life is not misery; desire is misery. The more the desires the more you are miserable. When you are miserable, don’t think that God is angry with you. Instead, look at the cause of your misery and you will find some desire or the other that has not been fulfilled which is the cause of your misery. The moment you let go of that desire you will stop being miserable.