It isn't success you want - It's happiness!

The path to the happiness-breakthrough book 1
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-9523680-8-4
Verlag: Pöhm Seminarfactory

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 125 mm x 205 mm, Gewicht: 309 g

Anyone, who has not found an answer to the question as to why we are in the world, will be unable to discover the ultimate happiness, for which we have all been created. Perhaps you have already experienced the fact that, success does not make you happy deep down - not even your marriage and, viewed over the long-term, not even your children.
What's this life all about anyway? Why are we here?
Everything else follows on from this question.
Most people attempt to get a handle on their lives and end up of reaching solid ground at some point. In reality, all they have to do is to stop splashing about and they would discover that they already have solid ground below their feet.
The solid ground is a way of being happy, which entails a dimension of which you have probably never had a taste until now.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pöhm, Matthias

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Why are we in the world? 7
One’s own death as a mentor 10
How I used to think 13
The law of attraction 15
The biography of a successful person 22
Nothing that can be taken away from you
can make you happy 26
The world is spiritual 28
The boulder in the landscape 30
We label everything
and believe the label 32
There is no right and wrong,
no good and bad 36
Was Hitler evil? 41
Please allow me to keep my illusions, otherwise it
would hurt so much … 44
Life fallacies 46
My dead sister visits me 58
Nothing matters - Nothing at all!67
Perspective change 72
Does Munich have a soul? 76
Does inanimate matter have a soul? 80
Letting go 91
Everything is possible 109
Why do we exist 126
Fallacies about the purpose of life 131
The second being inside you 141
The billiard ball dispenser 144
Who am I? 148
If you do not become like the children 150
Self-love 153
The second being inside you 160
Why do the things happen,
that happen to you? 165
Spiritual truths 178
Nathalie 180
The fabric of dreams 183
Marriage as a bringer of happiness 187
Spiritual truths applied to marriage 196
Two books - One unit 203
How you can take it further 207
Support the creation of a new world 209

Leseproben

Whilst hanging out the washing in the laundry a
young mother suddenly thinks: “I have done everything
that was expected of me. Where is the happiness
I was promised?”
Why are we in the world?
If you ask people if they’re happy then many will hurl a: “Yes, I am happy!” at you in a self-consciously firm
voice. The happiness they are referring to is a happinessconsisting of three meals a day, a secure job, a steadyrelationship, a few recreational activities, a comfortable
apartment, a nice little family, one pleasant vacation trip
per year, a nice party now and again, a nice glass of beer
in the pedestrian zone in summer and the pleasant family
get together at Christmas … That is not the happiness I am
talking about in this book. I am talking about a kind of happiness
that encompasses your entire being and makes you
invulnerable to every external event. I am not talking about
the few snapshots of joy that you already call “happiness”
but rather about a fundamental condition of your life. Bliss
would actually be a better word for this condition than the
worn out word “happiness”. I am talking about something
other than the relative satisfaction that most people out
there consider to be the ultimate “happiness”.
You cannot achieve this profound happiness in this life
without having dealt with one question that is fundamental
and pervades every area of your life. It is the question
as to what life is actually all about? Why are we on this
Earth? That is the one question that very few people have
asked themselves whilst busying themselves with the development
of goals within the framework of accepted convention, which they hope will not disappoint anyone. But
everything else is derived from the answer to the question
“what’s it all about”? This book is also concerned with this
question, because only then can you go further than you
have ever gone before. Only if you take this foundation as
the basis for everything you do on Earth will you be able to
experience this profound happiness.
If all you are striving for is “three meals a day happiness”
then this book was not written for you. In that case you can
confidently put it away.
In this book I talk a lot about suffering or sorrow and many
of my readers might be thinking: “But I don’t experience any
suffering”.
Under suffering most people only think of things like being
ill, suffering a great loss, being sad for some reason or
suffering from physical pain.
The condition we have filed away under the word “suffering”
is one in which we feel close to tears. That is only the
surface level of suffering; it’s the eruption of the volcano.
The suffering that I mean is that permanent subtle lack of
satisfaction with the way things are, that constantly restless
companion beneath the surface, that never resting
discomfort that simmers beneath the surface.
This suffering is manifest itself in that constant feeling of
“wanting to achieve something”, in never wanting to stop
minor and major worries, in those disappointments we experience
again and again, in the continuous judging and
condemnation of others, in the ongoing uncontrollable stress-thoughts in our minds, … in short, in the absence of
the feeling of having arrived.
Observe it when you drive to the supermarket, get out of
your car in the parking lot and see all the others with their
stony faces - but yours doesn’t look any different to them.
Check your thoughts on an occasion like this.
There is no “happiness”; there is no profound sense of
calm; there is no peace.
You are an animal hounded by its own self. And none of your
efforts will change that.
That is what I mean by suffering.
Your life is suffering!

Über Autor(innen)

Matthias Poehm is one of the best-known public speaking coaches in the world. For a long time his watchwords were success and notoriety. However in March 2005 he had an incisive spiritual experience and, since then, he has attained insights into the world, which have had a major impact on his previous outlook on life. There is only a vanishingly small number of people on Earth, who are completely at peace with themselves - Matthias Poehm has come tho the recognition that precisely that is the birthright of each and every one of us.