If it is happiness you want, change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with shoes than to carpet the whole earth.
~ Anonymous
“Happiness” is one of the three spiritual characteristics that the Program tells us God wants for us. The other two are “joyous” and “free.” In our study of what comes to us during our recovery, we read often about the treasured state of being happy. Someone wrote that we “have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
We in the Program are not selfish with the happiness we gain through our own efforts and through the sharing of our fellow members. We hope that all around us can be as happy as our Program has made us. A happy state of mind is contagious. Happiness breeds satisfaction—with ourselves, our fellow travelers, and life as a whole. It is difficult to be successful without finding happiness.
I accept happiness as a gift and thank my Higher Power for it.
©1990 by Anonymous, Published by Hazelden
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