Struggle ceases in acceptance. If you cheerfully accept everything that happens to you, then success and failure, honor and dishonor, praise and blame, gain and loss are the same to you. You know that everything happens by the Divine Will and life then becomes easy, flowing, and painless.
We are constantly dissatisfied with what we have; we want something different. We have a good car or a good wife/husband or a good job and yet we want another. This unrest in our mental attitude is responsible for tension, divorce, high blood pressure, and a wealth of other undesirables. But yet we cannot be satisfied with what we have. Uncontrolled desires destroy us.
Yet all it takes is a change in our mental attitude. How simple! Yet we don’t have effective control of our mind where we can change our mental attitude. Happiness, then, is more a result of control of our mental attitude than it is of possessions. A desire for a possession of any type is nothing but a source for tension and unhappiness.
Our mind is a tool that has been given to us to use for good purposes. We must learn to control it.
There is much pleasure in being satisfied with what we already have. Don’t seek more than we have been given.
