With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.
The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.
It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.
Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.
If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that God exists? Surely not. All that would follow would be the desireability of the belief.
We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have in order to be happy and "happening." Our addiction to consumption distracts us from seeing that we are disconnected from ourselves, from our truth and from one another. Any euphoria we gain from our material gains is fleeting at best.
The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
The life must be a well-balanced life, not lopsided in any manner to bring contentment.
True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.
Here the people seem to possess the secret of tranquility and to live lives of more than surface contentment.
There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.
Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance.
A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.
I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment.
No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.
Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker? Joy? Contentment? No! Never! Boredom, resentment, a feeling of not being appreciated, a feeling of futility, hurry, anxiety, worry-those are the emotional factors that exhaust the sitting worker, make him susceptible to colds, reduce his output, and send him home with a nervous headache. Yes, we get tired because our emotions produce nervous tensions in the body.
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
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