Say that you are.

When people urge you to live as they do they are really
inviting you to be as miserable as they are. VH

Think

Happiness is being glad for who you are; liking that you …

·         want what you want, liking that you don’t like what you don’t like,

·         change your mind whenever you think that’s best,

·         don’t change your mind until you really change your mind,

·         don’t like not knowing how to have what you want,

·         don’t like being mistaken,

·         feel just the way you like to feel about everything you do, and

·         feel just the way you like to feel about everything that happens.

The Seven Understandings of All Unhappiness

1.    Unhappiness is the feeling of a belief about a perceived or imagined phenomena; not an experience caused by the phenomena or anything else.

2.    Unhappiness is experiencing your own believing that an event is bad and/or should not be because you believe IT causes unhappiness.

3.    Believing something causes unhappiness is the very reason it seems to “cause” unhappiness.

4.    Believing that something can cause unhappiness is the only cause of the fear of it. By “fear” is meant loathing, need to avoid, need to cure, need to kill or eliminate, disgust, hatred, terror, horror, repulsion, disdain and all such similar feelings.

·         (Fear is not a simple desire to avoid, destroy or otherwise prevent or eliminate a threat to your desire values. That attitude does not need to presume avoiding unhappiness in order to justify a simple desire.)

5.    Believing someone or something is morally wrong or evil, psychologically “sick” or behaviorally inappropriate is to fear that person or thing as if it could cause unhappiness.

6.    Unhappiness is fearing that unhappiness can “happen” or be caused by anything.

7.    Unhappiness is believing that something is necessary, something has to be, should be, ought to be, or must be other than what it is.

What if what you are feeling is just the result of a belief you have?

"Every man possesses an original psychic home of unique attractiveness. However, because of his departure to foreign lands, where he falls ill, he loses command of his home. Because of his separation he cannot see things as they really are, and so falls victim to cunning deceivers. For example, because he is anxious he is also gullible, and so follows anyone who wears a mask of authority and assurance." ~ Vernon Howard

“Life without a reason, a purpose, a position… the mind is frightened of this because then ‘my life’ is over with, and life lives itself and moves from itself in a totally different dimension. This way of living is just life moving. That’s all.” ~ Adyashanti