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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
--G. Wilhelm Leibniz


To desire personal happiness is normal and healthy. Most of our plans, choices, and dreams about the present and future regarding jobs, relationships, and hoped-for achievements are geared to make us happy. It's never wrong to want happiness; however, to receive it at someone else's expense or to selfishly steal it from another will result in sorrow. And our greatest happiness will visit us when we least expect it - when we are attentively seeing to another's happiness.

Doing for others - perhaps shopping for a friend who is ill or aged, maybe offering child care to an overworked parent, or cooking a surprise meal for a lonely neighbor - will never fail to heighten our own pleasure.



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Beautiful message. Thanks, Pappy.
I am reading the Big BB and love this:

"So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead." James 2:17

(I stopped doing as much service work and well, you know the rest.)

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Check out ...  1 Corinthians 13:13

in fact, read the whole 13 verses



-- Edited by Pythonpappy on Tuesday 29th of September 2015 08:00:06 AM

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