"Knowing" how to be happy isn't that difficult, but applying what we know in our hearts and actually "being" happy takes holistic effort. There is happiness in that effort regardless of the outcome. Here's what I "know":
1. Battle the ego and his minions -- anger, indignation, depression, euphoria, greed, gluttony, lust, vanity, hatred and brutality -- with unconditional submission to GOD, and practice deference, empathy and love as sincere expressions of that submission. That being said, those debilitating emotions are natural parts of our psyche. The idea is to fight against them so that none can become a state of being.
2. Never lose sight of the child within you and the child in others.
3. Cultivate the audacity to do the above everyday.
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"And do not curse those who call on other than GOD, lest they blaspheme and curse GOD, out of ignorance. We have adorned the works of every group in their eyes. Ultimately, they return to their Lord, then He informs them of everything they had done." (Qur'an 6:108)
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