Dali Lama Himself said once...
"If you can go to sleep every night without taking a pill or a drink, go through a financial crisis and remain totally calm of the outcome, lose a loved one and be completely content, have your neighbor travel the world and not feel the slightest bit jealous, have people talk about you badly and not let their words hurt and cut you inside..... If you can go through all these emotions and not feel, then you are probably a dog. We are human and need to feel angry, hurt, jealous and loss. That way we appreciate the opposites"
So my interpretation is, the only way we know that we are 'happy' or 'today is a good day' or 'a person is really genuine and nice' is because you were once unhappy, had a shit day and met someone that was evil.
Light and dark, happy and sad, good and evil. You need to be lost before you're found and you can't have one without the other.
We know we are on the right path of happiness because we meet people so caught up in their own beliefs they disregard others. Feel for these people, but don't own their unhappiness, they will have to find their own...
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