The document provides advice from Hafiz on finding happiness. It suggests allowing yourself to be happy, loving yourself and others, seeking happiness and avoiding unhappiness, finding joy in nature, choosing conditions that support happiness, speaking kindly to yourself, trusting yourself, having heart even in difficult times, and taking part in increasing happiness.

1. Hafiz
secrets to
happiness

2. allow yourself to be
happy
“Ever since happiness heard
your name, it has been
through the streets trying to
find you.”

3. Love yourself, love
others
“When all of your desires are
distilled, you will cast just two
votes: to love more, and to be
happy.”

4. seek happiness and avoid
unhappiness
“You carry all the ingredients
to turn your life into a
nightmare - don’t mix them!”

5. revel in the glory of our
universe
“I caught the happiness virus
last night, when I was out
singing beneath the stars.”

6. choose and, where you can,
create conditions in your life
that support your happiness
“Fear is the cheapest room
in the house. I would see you
living in better conditions.”

7. speak (and think) kindly to
yourself about yourself
“What we speak
becomes the house we
live in.”

8. trust yourself
trust in yourself
“I wish I could show you when
you are lonely or in darkness,
the astonishing light of your
own being.”

9. have heart
“Even if the flood of
materialism drowns
everything, do not sink into
sadness because Noah is
your captain.”

10. Join the Happiness Revolution
Take the Gross National Happiness Index
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