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=Why is Happiness Important?=
===As Support on the Path===
Nothing can be more useful than to pass on to people the contagion of a true and deep happiness. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/happiness#p6</ref>
Try to be happy―immediately you will be closer to the Light. </ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/happiness#p8</ref> When you are full of peace, contentment and happiness, then there is no room for wrong feelings and desires; your heart is pure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p22</ref>
===As an Inner Barometer===
The moment they aspiration and surrender are not total, you are no longer happy. You feel uneasy, very miserable, dejected, a bit unhappy. This is the barometer! You may immediately tell yourself that an insincerity has crept in somewhere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/7-july-1954#p77</ref>
Peace, happiness, strength, lightness in the whole physical system. These are the more obvious and normal results which grow as the consciousness grows. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/descent-and-the-lower-nature#p29</ref> One feels peaceful and happy, full of trust, full of a deep and true benevolence, and very close to the divine presence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/20-december-1934#p2</ref>
But happiness and love do not accompany all good experiences. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/27-march-1935#p4</ref> Divine Grace is not and cannot be a guidance which brings us solely and always nothing but happiness, success and good fortune. Its main concern is with the growth of our being and consciousness, the growth towards a higher self, towards the Divine; the rest is secondary, sometimes a means, sometimes a result, not a primary purpose. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p30</ref>
=How to Cultivate Happiness?=