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Where do you find happiness?

Happiness requires that you restore inner peace. You can't be happy without inner peace. There's no joy without inner peace. If you have any kind of upset or any lack of inner peace, you can't be happy. Attachments eat away at your inner peace. Expectations disturb your inner peace.

You expect something to happen, and it doesn't happen. You experience disappointment. You're disturbed, and you lose inner peace. You're swept away in the swirl of the world. Some people, instead of realizing they created the expectation that led to the disappointment, blame someone else for disturbing their inner peace. "You didn't do what I expected you to do. Shame on you."

After enough suffering—lifetimes, in most cases—you finally decide, "Maybe I should look for happiness where I lost it." Light bulb! What a brilliant idea!

Seek happiness where you lost it.

So you start dropping the definitions: "I'm not a Corvette driver. I'm not a dog raiser." These are just definitions. "I'm not an American. I'm not a white male." These are definitions. "I don't need a Rolls Royce to be happy." No expectations. Nothing has to happen or not happen to make you happy. You get back to the viewpoint where you look at the world and it's OK...

...This is pretty traditional spiritual path teaching. The inner circle teachings go another step beyond this. They say that if you have enough wisdom and skill to manage your desires and fears, you can participate in the world and make it better without becoming entrapped or unhappy.

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from The Path to Happiness in Live Deliberately magazine

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