Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won’t see what this moment is. You won’t realize its beauty.
I can’t give you happiness. I can show you where it is, but I can’t give it to you. How can I give you what you already have? You have to get it yourself, inside your mind.
Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don’t make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.
Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.
Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience – feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.
You want to be happy; of course, that isn’t how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you’re not happy.
You don’t have to do anything to be happy, nor do you have to avoid anything. Happiness comes from within your mind. Happiness already exists.
My god, life is beautiful! Look at the colors! if you are blind, look at the colors of your mind.
Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.
Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.
Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.
Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.
People are unhappy because they don’t understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble, excited, passive – everything. You are everything.
Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.
Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions.
There is a whole crazy world around you. You can’t control it, so don’t even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.
There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all.
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.
Happiness does not mean that everything works out. Usually nothing works out, but you get a kick out of it anyway.