Bring to the World the Peace of You “[S]ince wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed . . .”— The Constitution of UNESCO, signed on 16 November 1945 Though the convention of using the word men to signify …
The Opposite of Happiness It’s understandably likelyThat most of us consider sadnessTo be the opposite of happiness. And accordingly, innocently,As we learned to do early on,We mistake preferable feeling-statesAnd pleasant bodily sensationsFor happiness itself. Therefore, happiness seems both attainable and elusive. And we are forever seekingTo acquire or enhance these states and sensations. This results …
Old News For (perhaps) New Readers The root of all upset and suffering is the belief that we are puny separate selves, lodged in a physical body, powered by the incessant thoughts of our personal minds, and living at the effect of an “outside world” filled with independent things, people, and situations. If we examine …
BREAKING NEWS! Your current circumstances, no matter how severe or intense, can never touch the truth of who you are. Who you truly are is the boundless context in which all the content of experience – thoughts, activities, circumstances, images, smells, tastes, other sensations of the body, and all your emotions and feelings – arises …
Goals and Dreams No question that goals, dreams, and desiresAre the vital engines of accomplishment and prosperity,Of creativity and societal development. But with all these forms of aspirationThere is also a prodigious pitfallOf which we would do well to shine a light on. Something that can rightfully be called:“The tyranny of needed outcome.” Because for …
Our Shared Being “Being is the shared background out of which everything emerges, in which it exists and into which it vanishes. Being is, as such, that from which everyone and everything borrows its apparently independent existence . . .” – Rupert Spira, YOU ARE THE HAPPINESS YOU SEEK People the world over are rightly standing …
Limitless and Unconditional The persistent global illusion strongly suggests for each of us . . . The existence of a world “out there” filled with other people and things and situations and circumstances and emotions and ideas. Physical objects and activities of the mind. But each of these, without exception, is known to us solely through perception, …
NOT NECESSARY . . . To be happy . . . It is NOT NECESSARY to overcome your fear.It is NOT NECESSARY to maintain a positive attitude.It is NOT NECESSARY to improve your state of mind.It is NOT NECESSARY to raise your spirits.It is NOT NECESSARY to, in any way, pursue a better feeling than …
If you think the key to happiness . . . If you think the key to happiness resides in your thoughts . . .Then what you’ll be searching for is that thought (or set of thoughts)That contains your happiness. And you will have to hold that thought (or set of thoughts)Permanently in your mind,Or else, …