The Quest for Happiness
The notion that you need to attempt to be happy is totally counterproductive as well as a waste of your time. Such a relief! It's time to rid yourself of the pursuit of happiness, permit go from the trying, and notice the resource already within you.
The quest for happiness generally is merely a mind game we use ourselves. It is merely your head that believes in the notion that 'someday I will make it happen, being happy I merely must achieve this which after which I'll be there.' The challenge the following is not we've these thoughts, it can be that we're completely identified with all the mind and rely on the minds. We feel our body-mind is who we are so when these thoughts come up we experience them on every a higher level our being as truth.
This idea that we're our body-mind and want to 'achieve' happiness is one thing we now have simply been given by the society we are now living in. It's clear that whenever we're born, for that first few days or even weeks we are not even aware that you will find a body. We felt that people were still part of our mother knowning that nothing existed outside of that. Even outside physical objects were regarded as portion of us, we'd never known any different. The truly amazing facet of this birth experience when we really look at is the fact that we had been there. What was there? Our a sense existence was there. We had been alive.
During the brief time we didn't have any connection to our physical body and maybe even the mind, we still existed, we existed minus the mental blueprint of our body-mind, we had been simply here, present. And the presence that's there whenever you were born is identical presence that's here along right this moment, it's deeper than your body-mind, it does not take life force running through you right now.