Happiness, for most, looks more like an escape from the mundane routines and stresses of everyday life than an innate nature that bubbles up from within. Go here or there to destress, get this, own that, a great career, money, responsibility, great marriage, beautiful children, etc., are all the things we chase after, and when we “have” and the thrill of having is gone, happiness seems to have disappeared as well. Now, to escape to the next source of joy. “Getting” is the nemesis of happiness. Its very nature is based on the conceptual idea that something out there is a cause for a felicitous experience. Not only is joy not about “getting,” it is about releasing what you’ve already got, along with the striving to get next, and next and next. Getting is an endless, unfulfilling cycle.
YOU are happiness; YOU are joy all wrapped up in a neat little package that needs nothing to know it. So get “knowing” (YOU) by not “getting” anything to find IT!
Your World, Intuitively