I can’t GET happiness.
Because I AM happiness (before I have a thought and believe it).
My true nature is a state of perfectly calm stillness and oneness with all things in this moment. And that is the world I am always living in …until I have the thought, “I need to find happiness.”
The only reason I go looking for happiness is that I’m forgetting that I already AM it. It’s total confusion. And that confusion is the only way I can ever be unhappy. It’s the only way I ever AM unhappy.
The pursuit of happiness IS where all my unhappiness comes from. I can pursue happiness all I want, and as long as I’m pursuing it, I’ll never have it. Or, more accurately, I’ll always have it and never know it. I’ll be like fish swimming in a pond, frantically trying to become wet.
There’s nothing left to achieve.
I’m already there.
All I need to do is notice:
I am what I’m trying to become.
If I want to be happy, I can question every thought that argues with my happiness and watch every last one of them dissolve into nothingness, leaving me be exactly as I am, basking in the miraculous, unearnable, unachievable gift of what is.