The Seeking Peace and Joy Dictionary H

 

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Habits  Noun

after some. Consideration habits is being included here.  One of the tricky. Parts regarding  habits is that on the  one hand  we can think of them as processes. And behaviors guided by thoughts  that have helped us pursue a purpose.  on the other hand there can be a tendency  to execute habits  without being aware of their  impact.  Is this to say habits can be good or bad?  It depends.... habits without  attention that aren’t challenged regularly are  eventually going to limit the experiences available  and thus prohibit change.  In short  it seems that  a habit can be helpful if it is a means to a well considered and  thoughtful purpose, yet a habit  used for the sake of having one is ...well what’s that saying about. If you do the same thing in the same way and expect a different result?     More. On Habits  in the entry on “practice”

Happiness

a noun?   

If you ask 100 people  if they want to be happy or want a happy life you’ll get enough electoral  college votes to win the day.  How Weber, if you ask that same 100 people. What happiness is.... you aren’t going to  get  100 similar answers...maybe not even 50.  So  imagine  you put happiness on a menu and serve the same thing to everyone.... how many people will go away hungry?   There are a lot  of self-help materials out there claiming to  provide the key to a happier  life yet few of these  bother to clearly  point out the assumptions they are making regarding. What happiness. Means.  to top that many of these “happiness”  handbooks start out by telling you  1) here’s how. You are not  measuring up and 2) they have figured out the absolute best way  for you and everyone else to measure up.  What if I believe the best way to help myself is to help others?  Do I need the  “Helping Others to Help yourself. Find Happiness by  Helping. Others why need you Help because you say so Handbook”?  Let’s say I find this  jewel and. Can’t understand it.  Then  do I need to find someone who is happy with. The self-help guide to helping others In oreder to help yourself handbook?  

The other  problem with happiness is we  tend to treat it as a destination like ..

Well Burt you go down  to the corner of  security and steady employment, then you take a right turn toward meaningful relationships and you go  down past the red barn and just after the red barn you take the  gravel road to Old Highway 34.  Once you get to 34  you  start looking for “stuff I Owen that makes me seem cool”. Road and go three stop lights and take  a left and go straight on till you hit the round-about.  go around  to the third exit where you see a sign. For retirement at a young age.  Take that exit and somewhere down that road is happiness.  Oh, if you make enough money you can buy a helicopter and fly straight there unless you hit a spot of tubulance of course  and you may have to. Land in a mine  field.  

Am I saying. Here that people cannot or should not be happy....?? No.. I’m saying  that  no one can tell you how. You. Can “be it” and if you aren’t at that particular destination remember  happiness is like a rollercoaster... it’s the ride that’s the fun part...not the destination.... 

Helping

A part of speech that should be a way of life

This will be the shortest entry.  Seeking Peace and Joy doesn’t  work without spending time helping  others...  Loneliness  is not peaceful and Helpless is not joyful... Don’t  move in that direction or push someone else in that direction.   Help others and the universe will. Do the same for you....you know that whole. Do Unto. Others. Thing.

Hub

Hub is a Noun. In relationships of two or more someone usually has to serve as a hub of the network sometimes.  In seeking peace and joy don’t. Be afraid to experiment with being the hub and  don’t forget to thank those who. Make the effort to be the hub.    Now if you are the. Hub...understand that  you don’t have to be in the center all the time and you can  just serve as a link between. Two or three others  until they are connected with or without you.   KYou see if you have ever seen a wheel  rolling  down the road you. Will note that the hub is important, yet if  many of the spokes are very weak, crooked, broken etc—the hub can’t  make the wheel  glide free and easy.  

If all the energy. You have is that of a spoke  then find a good. Hub and be grateful.  

Humble....

Not enough time or space here.... Look  for  this after. Thanksgiving...but. Know that  understanding. Humble and. Humility is  important ... read the “beatitudes.”  

What’s next..

Well there’s no “I” in team”—-but there’s one. In this dictionary... and it’s is next