What brings true happiness?

Not JUST money...lots of money.

Success in doing what you believe you need, from the Bottom of your Heart.

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Whether this is from your own Self-Determinism, or through Submission to someone else's Determinism- that of your Family, your Friends, your Society, your Environment, your gods, or God varies with your intrinsic spiritual development and empowerment.

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Expect a majority of shallow answers, based on the blockheaded notion that all people are the same, when the first thing anyone with eyes can see is that we are not.

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It is possible that at some Core Level, all people are the same, and want the same things the same way. But in practice, the majority of people never or seldom get get to access their Spiritual Cores, and the parameters of their desires and thinkingnesses are preset by subconscious programmings they may never realize are there.

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True Happiness is irrelevant to Right and Wrong, Good and Evil, "Good-for-YOU," and "Bad-for-YOU," "Fully-Attainable," versus "Completely-Unobtainable," "Personal or Societal Justice or Injustice," It may consist of something in one-to-several or all of these parameters, or none-of-the-above.

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It is arrogant to declare what will make someone "truly happy," when you don't know anything about them. If one had all of one's illusions removed, or removed them by some process, they would be able to determine what would make them truly happy THEN, with nothing clouding their perceptions- but the nature of THIS state is such that one's personal concept of "True Happinness" generally lies in having those clouds about one's perceptions, like a Comfort Blanket!

True happiness is that which is found inside ones self. Happiness derived from external sources is transient in that if that stimulus is removed so is the happiness. Happiness is a chosen response.

Understanding that one creates their here and now in the decisions they make in life and that they were the right decisions at the time and with the information available can help one in deciding to feel happy about the who, what and where we have placed ourselves.

Not many have this ability as we are programed to respond not to choose our responses.

Think about it!

Don't accumulate wealth earn and spend, without thinking assets bring status, of course, you may possess movable and immovable properties without loan, if you are worried about next instalment to pay it takes away all the happiness. Otherwise the world is a lovely place, you may hate death!

This is a question man has asked for thousands of years.

As for the answer, you have to find that out yourself. What makes me happy is having people who care about us. I think we're all born as a "puzzle" but we're all jumbled up. We are also missing one piece.

We can speculate what that one piece is, but we must find it somehow. I think i've already put myself together, true friends is my missing piece and now I am a completed puzzle.

Jesus can be a puzzle piece for some people, but you have to find your piece. Whatever it may be.

Only God can bring true happiness to the soul.

Being loved and able to love in return.

Being needed and helping others.

Being content in all situations, forgiving and loving others, and always having hope. Hope in a God to take care of you in this life and eternally with him in heaven.

if you want to know you can follow the advice found at mat 5:3-11

Self-efficacy, and a reliance upon oneself only, so you can enjoy others but not depend on them.

Here is the recipe:

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102006122