Macrobiotic Life

“The next time you are sad don’t fight with it. Don’t waste time in fighting; accept it – let it be a welcome guest! Look deep into it, with love, care. Be a real host! And you will be surprised beyond your comprehension: sadness has a few beauties which happiness can never have.
Sadness also has a being. Allow it, embrace it, sit with it, hold hands with it. Be friendly. Be in love with it. Sadness is beautiful! Nothing is wrong with it. Sadness has depth – happiness is always shallow. Sadness has tears, and tears go deeper than any laughter can ever go. Sadness has a silence of its own, a melody, which happiness can never have. Happiness will have its own song, more noisy, not so silent.
I am not saying choose sadness: I am just saying enjoy it too. And when you are happy, enjoy happiness.” Osho

“Remember, no matter how much you are accustomed to being unhappy, you must adopt the antidote of happiness. Each act of being happy will help you cultivate the habit of always being happy. Pay no attention if your mind tells you that you can never be happy. Just remember to start being happy now, and every moment say “I am happy, now!” If you can continuously do that, then, when you look back you can say “I have been very happy.” When you look at yourself now, you will say “I am happy” and when you look ahead, you will say, “I know I shall be happy.” All your future happiness depends upon how happy you are now, so start being happy NOW.” – Sri Sri Paramahansa Yoganandaji

“A strong determination to be happy will help you. Do not wait for circumstances to change,thinking falsely that in them lies the trouble. Donot make unhappiness a chronic habbit,thereby afffecting yourself and your associates.It is blessedness for yourself and others if you are happy.If you possess happiness you possess everything,to be happy is to be in tune with God. That power to be happy comes through meditation” – Sri Sri Paramahansa Yoganandaji

The food is not everything, but the best way to realise this, is to eat properly.. such a paradox

This is from George Ohsawa book – An Invitation to Health and Happiness.
There’s “8 Macrobiotic principles” in the book and this is the 8th principle – Do O Raku.
Reading the George Ohsawa books changed my view of Macrobiotic quite a lot – highly recommended to read some of his many writings!