Happiness is,
apparently, the goal of all goals - yet, most people seek happiness in the
wrong place. Ask people what they want, and after they answear, keep asking
why, until you hear the essential answer: "Because I want to be
happy." All of them believe that if they get that, then they will be
happy.
Speaking in
this way with people, I started to put this problem in the following way:
Why not make
happiness our priority? Why seek happiness by other means, second hand?
So I found
something even more interesting. If we happily accomplish our priority goal -
and not a secondary one - then we get anything else we want easier.
Many
spiritual traditions say that if you first head for higher spiritual purposes,
all others will come by themselves.
If you lost
contact with the inner source, if your happiness is always generated by
external circumstances, then you are at the discretion of each situation or every
stranger you meet. This kind of happiness is always fragile.
Happiness is
a state of consciousness that already exists in us - but often hidden by all
sorts of elements that distract us. Just as a beautiful sunrise can be hidden
behind clouds, so our inner happiness is shadowed by our daily worries.
Our
social conditioning and an inhibited awakening state prevent us from looking
for this Kingdom of Heaven, concealed in the depth of our heart. We can,
however, learn to rise above the conditioning clouds and rediscover the source
of happiness within our deepest. And after we have discovered this happiness,
wonderful, miraculous things will happen. Expression of happiness brings with
it a sense of connection with the creative power of the universe. If we
establish this connection, we will feel that nothing can stop us from doing
whatever we want.
When our
life is an expression of the state of inner happiness, we discover in ourselves
a huge source of power. This power frees us from fear and limitations and
allows us to make all the prosperity to which we aspire to become real. But
even more important is that this power will nourish all the relationships we
have, turning them into real fulfillment grounds. We discover that we become a
ray of light and love and even our mere presence is nourishing to everything
that surrounds us. People are urged to support our desires, and nature
naturally becomes receptive to our intentions.
The longer
we live in the state of happiness, the more we live the spontaneous fulfillment
of desires in the form of synchronicity and meaningful coincidences.
This state
has been called, in many spiritual traditions, grace. Having the experience of
grace is to be in the right place at the right time, to be supported by the
laws of nature, or, in short, to be lucky.
Although
happiness is the goal of all other goals, what we really want is to penetrate
the mystery of our own existence. Until we do this, no matter how many desires
we are fulfilled, we remain somewhat dissatisfied, for an inner voice does not
give us peace.
This voice
asks:
Who am I?
Where do I
come from?
What is the
meaning and purpose of my existence?
Where will I
go when I die?
There can
not be a more important mission in life than to relate to our inner self, the
origin of the whole being. The deepest self of each of us is the Self of the
whole Universe, and it is also the source of healing and transformation.
source:
Deepak Chopra, Power, Freedom and Divine Grace
Give it a try and you’ll never look back.
