“If you’re not lighting any candles don’t complain about the dark.”....ONE...makes a difference. And for every ONE candle that makes a difference...if each of those one candles lit thousands of others (paid it forward)...just think how bright our world would be. Buddha, in his quote refers to happiness....what is happiness? It is not what possess that makes us happy (although they may bring moments of pleasure)...so in perhaps a simple example, sharing a meal with homeless gives them food but probably more important to them was our time and companionship that made them feel like a person who counts and matters. And while the food gave them sustenance for a day, that time and companionship and conversation may have give them sustenance for a great deal longer--perhaps even a lifetime if that conversation was something that really stuck I think that is what happiness is..moments...glimpses and snapshots of time...and we share them when we create them. The snapshots in time can last the duration it takes to eat a meal or how long the magnitude of the memory and impact of the moment lasts. We can make moments ordinary or extraordinary...it just depends on if we are lighting candles..
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