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8. Practise these and other ideas toward inner and encourage needed connections between

and outer happiness. our minds and souls.

9. Accept and promote happiness. References

There are no extenuating circumstances that 1. The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother Volume
suggest humanity cannot be happy when 14. Cent. ed. Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo
they have developed right attitudes. And Ashram Trust; 1980, p. 163.
once you begin a positive habit, it seems as
if it picks up its own momentum. Yes, people 2. Csikszentmihalyi M. Flow: The Psychology
are born in very different circumstances, of Optimal Experience. Wheeling, Illinois:
but that does not negate the possibility for Nightingale Conant; 1990, pp. 18-23, 46-50.
inner and outer happiness. Developing the
‘happiness habit’ can open new dimensions 3. Ibid., pp. 64-6.

Dian Huff Kiser, Ph.D., CFRE, is Project Director of the Health and Social Policy Institute — HASPI
— in Sacramento, California.

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