{"id":2802,"date":"2023-01-27T23:56:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2023-01-27T23:56:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:56:32","slug":"the-basis-of-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/the-basis-of-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>The Basis of Happiness<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">If we cannot find the abundant life and complete happiness in the realm of the physical, wherein lies the basis of happiness? In the first place, I would say that happiness comes from within, and not from without. As the good book says, &#8220;.\u00a0.\u00a0. as he [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he&#8221;. I shall paraphrase that statement by saying, &#8220;As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall his joy become.&#8221; We control our happiness from within by our thoughts and actions. People can be happy without an abundance of material things, even living under the most meager circumstances, if they will abide by the laws which bring about happiness. \u2013 <em>Milton R. Hunter, \u201cMen Are, That They Might Have Joy,\u201d Conference Report, April 1954, p. 128<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we cannot find the abundant life and complete happiness in the realm of the physical, wherein lies the basis of happiness? In the first place, I would say that happiness comes from within, and not from without. As the good book says, &#8220;.\u00a0.\u00a0. as he [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,279],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-happiness","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}