by Nanda Karunanayake

Created on: July 24, 2008   Last Updated: November 28, 2009

When you have expectations, you cannot live happily. Expectations mean you are putting forward conditions to be happy. You want something as you feel like something is missing in you life. You are searching for that something but you will never find what you search for.

Instead of keeping your hopes on something, a material thing, or someone who is a living being, keep and focus your attention on peace and happiness. Keep your only hope as peace and happiness. It is wonderful to live with hope of peace and happiness in your heart. Yet by itself, this hope will not accomplish anything.

By all means, hope for the very best that we all expect whatever we do or whatever our achievement. You are waiting until you achieve something in order to be happy. Why wait until we achieve something to be happy? You are wasting time and energy on something else when you have the opportunity to be happy at this very moment "now".

This is the only time you have to achieve this target that target is peace and happiness. When your life is filled with peace and happiness, you can give it to more and more people around you. You can give them to people who you interact with you and you can touch their hearts and souls. This is how you can make hope into action.

It is positive, productive, effective action that will bring about those things for which you hope. Let hope be your reason to act, and not a substitute for action. Suppose you instead of peace and happiness you fill your heart with sorrow and despair. What will be the outcome? You spread sorrow and sadness around you. You life is also filled with sorrow and sadness.

Due to sorrow and sadness you will be in depression and this depression is like a disease which can spread to others. When you are stressed and in panic you create an atmosphere of fear around you and it will affect all around you. So keep peace and happiness as your goal, target, hope and aspiration and instantly you have achieved what you want in life.

This goal is separated from other goals which you have to spend lot of time, energy and efforts. Hope of Peace and happiness will put your mind and your spirit in a positive mood and change your attitude to a positive one from negativity. This kind of hope can strengthen your will for doing whatever is possible for the benefit of others. Keep hope alive within you and ignite in your heart. Treasure it, nurture it, and allow it's warm, enriching and glow to fill your world and you are helping others around you and ultimately you are helping yourself too.

With your skills, your resources, your commitment and persistence, bring that hope of peace and happiness to your life. This is an effortless effort, be the living achievement of the best of your hopes.

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