Happiness is a beautiful thing, and far too many great people are missing out on it. They’re skipping life’s lessons, due to fear or hurt or pain, and what’s happening is that they are inevitably missing happiness, unable to experience its freedom. Be not discouraged. The great thing about life is that we can change, even if it is one single thought at a time, we can change. That is a message of hope to those who feel like they’re missing out on happiness, and that everyone around them seems to have some secret and they’re left out. You don’t have to feel left out. You, too, can choose change. For me the best way to step out into the unknown world of change is to simply step out. No person has to “miss God” as my partner says, quoting her father. It’s true. No person has to miss God— miss out on the experience of their full self. That is what missing God is about: missing those moments to move forward, to receive what is good, and to live in the light and knowing of this life vibration.Lately, I have met some amazing people. I have established (or beginning to) friendships that I have always wanted, friendship that will watch me walk out of this world and enter another…in time. The people who will become our most cherished friends often show up in unexpected situations or experiences, like Friday night while at 626 Reserve Wine Bar in downtown LA. Once a month fabulous women get together and share in creative exchange and harmony—friends. I have gained so much from being a part of such greatness. I have learned, I have danced, I have laughed, hugged, and I have left (emotionally) full—life is happening. Each moment now is connected to the moment now, leading you to the next moment connected to where you are, and where your feet are planted. It’s up to us to determine what it is we have planted, where we are standing, and what our healing is about. Sometimes new friends can awaken in us the answers—deeply penetrating—that changes our existence as we know it.
Happiness is the result of two things: inner study and a conscious practice created from this inner study; otherwise, you may be tempted to view happiness as being a feeling stemming from experiences you have, or are, having. Myth. The word happiness can be broken down like this: happ-en-ing. People tend to view their happiness as being the result of what is happening, but that is the illusion. Happiness is freedom, and freedom comes to the seeker, the one who practices, and the one who is able to see life’s synchronicities lining up before her eyes. These synchronicities are pieces to the puzzle called life. With each successful fit, we move closer and closer to friendship, happiness, and the stuff that happens in between.
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...to the stuff that happens in between!
As you point out there is no simple recipe for happiness. My colleague, Dr. Fred Horowitz, at happiness-after-midlife.com is fond of this anonymous Chinese poem that he has shared with me and I would like to share with you:
“It is so clear that it takes long to see.
You must know that the fire you are seeking
Is the fire in your own lantern,
And that your rice has been cooked from the very beginning.”
Oh, the truth of the quote!
Beautiful! So much is found when we are able to really look, or "see" in truth. Our happiness is in all the moments, not missing what's really happening in our lives. Truth!
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