Happiness

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."
Denis Waitley

We tend to think that money can buy us happiness. If we had more money, we could buy a bigger house or a fancier car or a more exotic vacation. But all these things don't make us happy for long. Happiness can't be bought. There are many poor people who are much happier than many rich people. The things that money can buy are not what is really important to us. As the Beatles said "I don't care too much for money. Money can't buy me love". No matter how much money and how many fancy things we have, if we have no love, then we won't be happy.

It is not receiving love that makes us happy. The real reason we feel happier when someone else loves us is because it tends to make us love them more. The truth is that we feel happiest when our thoughts are not about ourselves and what we can get from others but about others and what we can give to them. But love is not just romantic love, of course. Our happiness increases whenever we focus on whatever we love and appreciate in the world around us.

"Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude". In order to be really happy, you must appreciate all the blessings that you have right now. You must love the things you see around you, right now. To do this, you need to realize that even when something unpleasant occurs, there is always a lesson or opportunity hidden in it somewhere.

You don't want happiness in the future, after all; you really want it right now. Appreciate the present, don't attach your happiness to something you don't have yet. The present is all that really matters because it is all that you have any control over.

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