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Guide to Happiness – Description All
beings wish to find happiness and to avoid suffering A Guide to Happiness – Presentation (back cover) The
author takes us on a journey through his artistic activities and his
daily experiences, his esoteric readings and his spiritual practices,
his reflections on the world of today and his visions for the world of
tomorrow. He encourages us, with humour and wisdom, to observe the
circumstances of our life and the structures of society, in order to
understand the present and to use it to create the future. While
travelling through the seventy stages of this journey, you will explore,
to name a few, Buddhism, Taoism, Reiki, astrology, Angelic Healing,
meditation, extra-sensory art, golf, personal development, Feng Shui,
homeopathy… You will discover their principles and benefits presented
in a clear and concise way. Some
excursions will allow you to grasp the nature of the deep
transformations that mark our time; and the stopovers will incite you to
undertake a personal process to participate in the birth of a new world. Along
the way, you will practice laughter, kindness, forgiveness, simplicity,
gratitude, love, wonder… and you will learn to use daily situations to
attract happiness into your own life and to offer it to others. This guide addresses the beginner on the path of wisdom and happiness as well as the mature disciple. To
know more about A Guide to Happiness for the Third Millennium,
visit its bilingual website www.guidedubonheur.com. About the Author Pierre
Wittmann is a painter who explores the implications of art, healing and
spirituality. He creates therapeutic paintings and extra-sensory light
structures. For the past twenty years he has cultivated truth, wisdom
and happiness, and his journey has guided him to numerous spiritual
masters in the Orient and in the West. He teaches Reiki and meditation,
practices therapy and Angelic Healing, and contributes to spreading the
light of a new era of peace, love and harmony on the planet. Writer when
the mood is on him, he feels today a deep need to share his personal
experience and the fruits of his spiritual quest. He lives in Thailand
and in France. A
Guide to Happiness – Presentation In
A Guide to Happiness for the Third Millennium, Pierre Wittmann
takes us on a journey, in seventy stages, on the path to happiness. Each
chapter presents a topic related to the search for happiness. The
happiness that this book invites us to discover is inner happiness –
peace and harmony – not only for ourselves, but for the whole of
society. This
guide contains three kinds of information: Explanations
of the nature of happiness and suffering
– of health and illness – on the individual, social and global
levels. These include understanding our present situation, visions for
the future, and suggestions on the means of transformation. Among these
topics, you will find: What Truth Should We Believe, Working for Peace,
The Price of Happiness, War and Peace, The New Paradigm, Science and
Spirituality, Manipulation through Suffering, Crises and Transformation,
The Ills of Society, and A New World. Brief
introductions to teachings of wisdom
that relate to our understanding of the nature of reality, our view of
the world, our beliefs and our values. You will discover the principles
and benefits of various spiritual teachings presented in a clear and
concise way. You will also find Buddhist teachings, such as
Impermanence, Non-Self, The Perfections and The Divine Emotions; Wu-Wei,
or Non-Action, a Taoist teaching; Homeopathy, Reiki and Angelic Healing;
Extra-Sensory Art, Light Structures and The Platonic Solids; Astrology,
Feng Shui, and The Enneagram. Practical
techniques
that use daily situations to attract happiness into our life and to
offer it to those close to us, including Forgiveness, Meditation,
Laughter, Beauty, Prayer, The Emotions, Gratitude, Kindness, Wonder,
Peace, Nature, The Pages, Knowing How to Connect… These
three kinds of information are not arranged separately, but interweave,
in order to instil in you one of the most important truths that allows
one to reach the realisation of happiness, interconnection. All is
linked, and our impression that we are separate beings is an illusion.
It is the cause of most of our suffering and our frustrations. Here
is a summary of some of the essential points discussed in A Guide to
Happiness: The
Truth.
How to recognise what is true in all the information that we receive;
how to become conscious of the conditioning and manipulation to which we
are all prey; and how to continue to live in the world while disengaging
from the structures and influences that stress and exhaust us. The
Emotions.
Among the different types of emotions, some are beneficial to our
physical and mental health and for our relationships with others,
whereas others are particularly harmful to all aspects of our life. One
can learn to recognize these and to manage them. Microcosm
and Macrocosm.
There are different levels of reality that are intimately interconnected
and that reflect in each other, from the atom and the cell, to the
galaxy and the universe, while passing through the organs, living
beings, social groups, ecosystems, the planets and the stars. Responsibility.
Understanding the situations of our life, the way we react to what
happens to us, and accepting responsibility for everything that happens
to us, helps us to stop being victims and to discover the power to
create the existence to which we aspire. A
New World.
What is the nature of the changes and transformations we can expect in
the coming years or decades, and what will be the nature of the new
world that will result from them? The
Quest for Happiness: Three Essential Stages All
beings wish to find happiness and to avoid suffering. Yet, despite our
many efforts, we don't succeed as often that we would like. Besides, the
constraints of society and the vicissitudes of the world don't make this
task easy for us. Etymologically,
the French word for happiness, “bonheur”, comes from the word
“heur” meaning “good fortune”. The definition of happiness,
according to the dictionary, is “the state of fully satisfied
consciousness”. In our world of duality, however, pleasant sensations
alternate with unpleasant sensations, and happiness is inseparable from
its opposite, suffering. When we understand the nature of the reality in
which we live we can, however, learn to manage this paradox, and to
understand what causes and prevents happiness. It is also important to
realise that happiness is a state of mind, and that to be happy is a
choice that, despite appearances and our belief system, is offered to
all. There
are mainly three things that stop us from being as happy as we would
like: the illusion of separation, the belief that we live in a world of
lack, and fear. When we realise their opposites – that we are part of
a whole, that universal abundance is at our disposal, that love can heal
all ills – we will already have made true progress on the path to
happiness. We
will understand at that moment that we are interconnected not only with
all beings, but with everything that exists in the universe. So,
happiness is not an individual problem, but a collective quest that
addresses all levels of our existence: domestic, social, global, cosmic.
If we don't bring peace, harmony and happiness to all beings, without
exception, our own happiness will never be total nor definitive.
Society’s well-being is inseparable from our own, and to create a
world of peace and harmony, it is necessary to begin inside oneself. There
are three essential stages in the search for happiness and a better
world. It is first necessary to become aware of the present situation –
our personal situation and that of our planet. Then it is necessary to
decide to change, to change ourselves and to change the world. Finally,
action is necessary to co-create the transformation, once more on an
individual level and on the global level. To
become aware of the present situation means exploring the past to
understand the present. It takes courage to look for the truth, our
truth and that of the world and to decide what we want to believe in all
the information that assails us every day. We must recognise that we are
conditioned, manipulated, exploited, that we have lost our health, our
power and our freedom, and that we constantly live in stress and in
fear. We also have to discover our ills, those of society and those of
the planet, and to understand their causes. To
decide to change is the choice that we must make now, before it is too
late and our ills and those of the world drive us irremediably towards
an irreversible disaster. The only sound decision is to refuse to
continue to be powerless victims and frustrated aid recipients, and to
become responsible beings. We must accept responsibility for everything
that happens to us and stop blaming others; take our own happiness in
charge, decide to heal ourselves and change our attitudes. To understand
the notion of interrelationship in creating harmony and that of synergy
will help us recover our power. To connect and to form groups and
communities able to manifest happiness and abundance for all will speed
the transformation. To
co-create change is our role for the future. It consists of defining a
new world view based on the search for an ideal, for the meaning and the
value of existence, and for a new level of consciousness. Once we have
decided that that we want to change, it is necessary to take action in
applying the numerous means of transformation that already exist in our
society. By understanding that when our goal in life is to use our
talents and joy to help the world, we will be able to use
our capacities, our creativity and our enthusiasm to create new
structures and new social systems. The opening of the heart is the
secret that will allow us to find the energy, the love and wisdom to
accomplish this task. In
A Guide to Happiness for the Third Millennium, Pierre Wittmann
leads us on a journey, in seventy stages, on the path to happiness. He
will help you explore such topics as beauty, laughter, extra-sensory
art, Buddhism, Taoism, Reiki, astrology, Angelic Healing, the emotions,
forgiveness, gratitude, love, meditation, wonder, golf, personal
development, Feng Shui, homeopathy… and will teach you to use daily
situations to attract happiness into your life and to offer it to those
close to you. You will realise that your happiness is by no means
insignificant, but that it is crucial for creating a harmonious society
and a peaceful world. To
know more about A Guide to Happiness for the Third Millennium, visit its
bilingual website www.guidedubonheur.com. A
Guide to Happiness – Practical Advice All
beings wish to find happiness and to avoid suffering. Yet, despite our
many efforts, we don't succeed as often that we would like. Besides, the
constraints of society and the vicissitudes of the world don't make this
task easy for us. In
A Guide to Happiness for the Third Millennium, Pierre Wittmann
offers many tools that allow us to use daily situations to attract
happiness into our life and to offer it to those close to us. He also
invites us to realise that our happiness is by no means insignificant,
but that it is crucial for creating a harmonious society and a peaceful
world. Here are twelve suggestions for progress on the path to
happiness. 1
Gratitude:
Let's know how to appreciate who we are, what we do and what we have,
the beauties and the joys of our life, and the lessons that our
difficulties teach us. 2
The pages:
Let's write three pages every morning to listen to the messages from our
subconscious and to learn to draw on its immeasurable treasures. This is
also an excellent way to develop our creativity. 3
Beliefs:
What to believe? What makes us happy? What are we afraid of? Let's make
a list of our beliefs and our conditioning in order to discover our
blockages and to thus release them. 4
Forgiveness:
Let's give up hatred, grudges towards others and towards ourselves, and
let's free ourselves from guilt while practicing an authentic process of
forgiveness. 5
Laughter:
All is illusion! Let's stop taking ourselves so seriously, but
contemplate the circumstances of our life with humour. Let's not
hesitate to laugh about our weaknesses and our mistakes. 6
Kindness:
Let's learn to be caring, smiling, helpful, gracious… to live in
harmony with others and with the world. 7
Nature:
Let's cultivate our interconnection with the whole, with life in all its
forms. Let's enter into communion with nature and let's contemplate its
beauties with wonder. 8
Daily Practice and
Disengagement from the World:
Through a personal practice, such as meditation, let's learn to live in
the present moment and to disengage from the world, the better to help
it. 9
What Can We Do?
What is our vision of the ideal world? Let's make the decision to choose
our future and to manifest it. Let's act for the happiness of all and
let's create a new world. 10
The Emotions:
Our negative emotions are the cause of all our torments and our
suffering. Let's learn to manage our emotions in order to recover
health, joy of living and freedom. 11
Prayer:
Let's discover what our true needs are; let's learn to connect through
prayer to the source of happiness and abundance, and to accept the help
and the support that are offered to us. 12
Knowing How to
Connect: Let's
learn to use love and communication to resonate with all those we meet,
and let's discover the power of synergy in groups and communities. To
know more about A Guide to Happiness for the Third Millennium,
visit its bilingual website www.guidedubonheur.com. |
