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Happiness is a Choice
We must cultivate an idea of happiness that is broad enough to encompass our sadness.
Maharishi Vyasananda
Happiness is a choice.
When we feel something other than happiness, our mind is more than willing to tell us why. "It's because you don't have that job," or "...that man/woman," or "...enough this," or "...enough that," and according to the mind, we won't have happiness until we fill this supposed hole in our experience. The only trouble is that when we get whatever the mind tells us we need, happiness has moved on, and now we find we are lacking something else. It's a system that never has worked, and yet we continue to try.
Happiness is a choice.
When we begin our meditation practice, almost immediately we start to have the experience of fulfillment within ourselves. We begin to recognize the truth that happiness, fulfillment, is dependent on nothing outside. Fulfillment is something we have. It is, in fact, what we are in our least excited state. And each time we meditate, we are able to experience our fulfillment just a bit more. When we know this, when we have this experience, happiness becomes a choice.
With the fulfillment we are, we simply choose to be happy. We choose to see the world anew. We choose to step out of our habitual way of seeing what we don't have, and instead, we may choose to see the infinite possibilities of life and to see ourselves as the legitimate heirs of all that life has to offer.
And our responsibility? To continue to meditate each day, and to make the choice, each day, to have happiness.
Love and Jai Guru Deva,
Jeff Kober
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