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"Happiness manifests itself to every person according to one's own understanding."
Abdul Tajib Ahmed Al Mutanabbi
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What is the shortest path to happiness?
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That is a very hard question.
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Shortest path
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Beginning
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I need to think about it a little. Can I think about it?
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It�s simply not to complicate it too much�that is shortest path to happiness if you ask me.
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That�s it.
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The path to happiness, huh?
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That�s it.
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Let�s go?
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Let�s go.
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That is one short question that would need a very long answer.
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Happiness can be big and small, but all happiness IS happiness.
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For me happiness is when I see a beautiful flower on my cherry tree.
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Happiness can be if a person is healthy.
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Happiness can be if you have a harmonious marriage and family.
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All of these things are parts of one bigger happiness.
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The shortest path to happiness is�
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�somehow to let everything goin the way it needs to be going�
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�going, going down the river.
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There is one short story. There are ducks swimming.
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You know�you have a river and ducks are swimming?!
So, some ducks are swimming normally down the river.
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But some are swimming upstream and�
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And some of them have their heads under water and their legs are waving in the air�
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And still, all of them are going in the same direction.
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I think that everything is perfect just the way it is.
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Let it go as it needs to go.
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Well, these things were faster when I was little.
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Or it just seems that way to me.
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Funny.
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Does it work? Yes, it�s very good.
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I have a feeling that we are too big for this.
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Look, he turned over.
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Wave to the camera.
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What does the young mother have to say?
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The shortest path to happiness?
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The shortest path to happiness is when you are able to be happy even when you are not
happy.
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When you don�t feel that you always have to be happy and, that you need to do all the
different things to achieve this,
but you can simply accept that there will be some sadness and difficulties,
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some suffering and heaviness and that you somehow still see some beauty and you simply
live.
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What is the shortest path to happiness?
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It�s to have the right girl.
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If you have real love it will bring you happiness.
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For example, I found my wife and we are together for 42 years and we are happy.
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I think that the shortest path to happiness is this.
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That is the shortest path to happiness.
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It starts with love, than you have some romance, love, and making love and then the shortest
path to happiness occurs.
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Great.
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Now is a time for new beginnings,
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You know it, opportunity is great,
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All that you wish we can say to each other,
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But let it be our own secret.
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Fight like a warrior and win,
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God will reward you for it,
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There is strength in you for a new beginning,
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You can cover your life in gold.
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The shortest path to happiness?
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It�s to enjoy every moment of your life.
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It�s to live every day the best way you can and to give your very best.
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For me it goes through Ninjutsu.
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That would, as you may see, lead to rotation of an aircraft over the X axis.
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First I would say people and students. On the first and second place.
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This very work and exploration is something that is one other dimension of fulfilling,
therefore happiness.
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Come on now, you can't go asking me these kinds of questions.
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There is no shortest path to happiness, if it's the shortest path to happiness, then
it's is the wrong path to happiness.
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A wise one, eh? Get it? That's it. Go on, I don't know. That's it.
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Can I go on with a short story?
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How does it all get mixed up? Joy and happiness and negative stuff, all together.
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I'm taking a walk with my grandfather, by the sea, and I'm really small, wanting to
throw a big rock.
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Because Grandma doesn't allow me to throw big rocks, just the little ones, unlike my
grandfather who does let me.
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I start to run, building momentum to throw that big rock but inertia pulls me with it
and I fall into the sea.
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And it was the end of November.
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My Grandpa takes all of my clothes off, gives me his jacket,
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and starts a fire on the beach
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and starts drying my clothes because Grandma would beat both him and me up, if I had come
home like that.
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Way to happiness?
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Very simple � start smiling.
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And you are to reduce your needs in life.
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Cut short on your needs then happiness will simply flourish in you.
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It goes like this: a husband and wife are on a boat, I think they were Japanese.
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So, a husband and wife are on a boat and the boat starts to rock � a storm came out of
nowhere.
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The wife is terrified.
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She is afraid, she thinks she is about to die, than the boat is about to capsize, that
something is going to happen.
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And the husband is calm.
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And, out of nowhere, he pulls out a knife out of his pocket.
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And places it, the knife, under his wife's throat.
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And he asks her, �How come you're not afraid now?�
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And she says: �That's because I trust you, you're my husband and you love me and I trust
that no harm will come upon me. �
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And the husband responds: �See, in the exact same way I have confidence in God and nature,
that they won't do any harm to me.�
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And at this very moment, the wind stopped, and they reached the other side safely.
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And for me, when I'm playing I'm happy.
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A lot of things people often talk about, it's about materialism, that you need to have a
car, you need to have a house, and this and that...
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Of course , you need to have a place to live, but, what happiness is, real happiness,
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it's not that but something one experiences deeper. And I experience it through music.
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Zadar, Croatia, Sea Organ 2005
Happiness...
Happiness is...
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Good relationships with people,
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sincere relationships, in which one can communicate everything in order to make sure nothing is
I'm happy when I buy a pretty new dress.
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Happiness is when one makes someone else happy.
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Happiness is when one does what one likes.
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Happiness is to work with people. Well, not always, it is most of the time.
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Hapiness is travelling, getting to know new stuff.
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Many things.
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To be simple.
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To wish.
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To love.
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To be loved.
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In fact, one could say that, in fact that a path doesn't exist.
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There is no journey, it is here, it is here around us.
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One simply needs to catch it by the tail and that's it.