You have to forget your happiness to be with the world.
Just like you have to forget your troubles to be with the world.
On the pendulum from joy to suffering, each one has a share.
Each share has its own intensity and appearance.
Not each share is visible.
Joy has sufferings as much as sufferings has joys.
Each pendulum swings for each human, but not in synchronised motion.
Nobody has more.
Nobody has less.
I am as lucky as you. You are as lucky as the one next to you.
No grass is ever greener on the other side.
Our dismissal of the other's pendulum of joy and suffering as any less or any more reflects our victimised obsession with our own pendulum.
Finding another as luckier, even in heart, is committing a grave act of error against Him. For He is Just. He is the Just of the Just. So finding a grass greener is disbelieving His Justice.
Finding anyone in apparent misery and feeling sympathetic rather than empathetic is an act of error. He wants you to help a fellow being by being empathetic, not feel sorry for him. For what may seem like a misery to you, maybe a human's ultimate connection to Him. For what may seem like eternal misery for another is a mere phase of suffering.
As I sat with a friend, she said, 'Remember me in prayers.' I told her I need them too. She smiled and said well then remember me in prayers, for who knows who prays for whose prayers to be answered.
You have to forget your happiness to be with the world.
Just like you have to forget your troubles to be with the world.
On the pendulum from joy to suffering, each one has a share.
Each share has its own intensity and appearance.
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