Happiness
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 11:31PM How does it feel to discover happiness is not earned, but is freely given? Real and lasting happiness is grounded in love. This is something you cannot buy, or put a measurable price on.
In essence, true happiness is not created by your circumstances or perception of love. It is the source of your creative power. It is something you open yourself to as you open the heart more fully. A Divine connection awakens and grows. Sometimes it helps to have guidance to recall that you are whole and healed. Notice if you tell yourself there is something wrong with you. Notice how you distract focus from joy. Let go of the fault-finding mind. Alter everything.
As you feel increasingly connected with your soul and why you were born, real happiness emerges. Recognize that as you ask a question, the answer is simultaneously given. Your sense of happiness is linked to harnessing your creative power. Nothing outside of you has potential to affect you as deeply. Sometimes interacting with others is a stepping stone to finding yourself.
As you see more clearly, you cannot help but smile broadly. The truth about happiness is obvious in the here and now. Embody joy. Allow it to fill you; go on, laugh yourself silly.
"There is only one success - to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
Reader Comments (2)
Second, I do want to comment on your happiness comments that you left. I cannot argue with your view of happiness, as you related it above. However, I believe in a much simpler view of happiness. I believe that happiness is a choice. Take a look at a few of my posts: http://mondaymorningpower.blogspot.com/2007/05/happiness-is-decision-choose-to-be.html
http://mondaymorningpower.blogspot.com/2007/07/happiness-made-simple.html
http://mondaymorningpower.blogspot.com/2007/07/happiness-vs-human-nature.html
I am ready to accept that we feel very differently about happiness. I believe that happiness should have absolutely no conditions.
Some people think happiness is a choice. Other people sense happiness simply exists and they embrace it or resist it just like they embody joy and love or block the inner knowing. Every perspective is valid. As a person creates beliefs, he tends to create experience to reaffirm those beliefs. People tend to relate happiness to other feelings and experiences. One scenario I posted on your site relates to another kind of Western cultural thinking. Personally, I value different views and appreciate hearing people share their views and stories. Everything we notice and listen to invites us to be more aware of how and why we think and feel as we do. Helping others empowers ourselves. I exist to empower and inspire.