In our heart of hearts, we all crave Happiness. — This is the universal hunger. And only as we are satisfied do we feel that life is good. Consciously or unconsciously, we have made Happiness the object of all our endeavor. 1/10

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We plan, toil, strive, save, suffer, hope and pray for it; we count no price too great, no sacrifice too costly — if only we may be sure of it. With it we ask for nothing else — without it we find the whole world empty and meaningless. 2/10

Even those who do not want to be happy are happiest when most unhappy. So that, like the rest of us, they too have joined the everlasting pilgrimage. 3/10

Happiness, just Happiness, is what we all are seeking. Some are finding — and losing again. Some are almost touching — and feeling it slip from their grasp. 4/10

A few are making their own, which they keep — if they are willing to share it. Whilst the many — blind, selfish, frantic — are cursing an imaginary fate that is only the projection of their own blurred thought. 5/10

Nobody really wants Happiness — what everybody wants is Growth. But the majority, seeing only the fruit of development, which is Happiness, fail to consider the long hard months of pushing up through the earthen crust that lies between the seed and the fruitage. 6/10

So, during growing-time, we are apt to feel impatient. When a little toddler is just learning to walk, the father does not prepare a scientific treatise on the benefits of exercise to a juvenile organism. 7/10

Father says with a cheery tone and a winning smile, “Baby, see that big red apple across the room? You may have it if you reach it before it's gone!” And Baby, forgetting he cannot walk, just walks. 8/10

We are the babies, the morsel of fruit is Happiness, and the All-wise Father keeps the reward before us while we are learning, through bruises and tears, to walk alone. 9/10

Thus to be always reaching for Happiness is to be a child in God's nursery. When we are grown, we see that we have only been learning how to walk. 10/10 END THREAD