Welcome to the Hollywood Happiness Club. You are a member, simply because you’ve got happiness in you, and you are capable of giving happiness to those around you. In fact, multiplying happiness is a good way to describe what life is for.
“Happiness is a decision I must make.” – A Course in Miracles
Notice the quote could be interpreted two ways: one way, it sounds like the course is saying, “If you want to be happy, you have to decide to be happy and then go for it.” The other way, it sounds like the course is saying, “You have no other choice but to decide to be happy. Your decision has already been made for you by some exterior force, so you must decide for happiness because you are happy, like it or not.”
For me, the second way is the one that leads me out of my mind, that leads me into the unknown, and gives me a chance to be happy because it makes no sense to my mind.
“Am I not the decider?”
You see, we have all experienced unhappiness at one time or another, so in our logical minds, we believe existence consists of happy times and unhappy times. Many religious traditions talk about taking the middle path, and not getting too up or too down about our circumstances, as circumstances are bound to change. This is a logical interpretation. So, to take the second interpretation is a mystical interpretation: one that is counterintuitive to the brain, one that sets your thinking mind aside and forces you to make a conscious leap into the unknown. ”If I must decide to be happy, then what were those times when I felt unhappy or confused? They seemed quite real.” Of course your mind will break in and ask a logical question. But happiness defies conventional logic, having a logic all its own. So, the first step toward happiness is to quiet your mind long enough to let the truth dawn upon you, without allowing the logical mind to ask a self-serving question. When you are quiet and you are ready, you will suddenly just know and feel the truth: you will know your true reality consists of happiness, peace, and nothing else. This requires a “leap of faith,” and to have lasting happiness likely will require a commitment to prayer or meditation.
Once you have tasted this experience of truth, your life now becomes about the expansion of happiness. How can we expand it to encompass all people, even “regular” people who live “regular” lives? The question is essentially meaningless, for to know the truth is to know oneness and to know separation and form as an illusion that believes in itself, yet does not actually exist at all. So the best way to help the “regular” person know happiness is to just be happy in your knowing of truth and demonstrate this new way of living. When the regular person is ready to truly be happy, he/she will allow the truth to dawn upon him/her as a natural expression, as you did.
So as the Lord’s Prayer says, “wait in joyful hope…” and life flies by effortlessly.
See you on the 21st for the launch party!
Happiness (Peace),
Sean
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