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Wednesday Thought: Happiness

Everyone wants to be happy in life. Most
of us have been conditioned to think that
"happiness" is something to be earned, or
that it is a reward for something else we
do it life. Bullshit! That is not the case.

The belief that happiness must be deserved
has led to more guilt, deception, pain, and
suffering across the ages than any other
source of misery you can imagine. Happiness
is our natural state of being. People were
"designed" to be happy--to manifest happiness
for their own good and for the good of others.

The path to happiness is not having more money,
more fame, more power, or more of anything in life.
Happiness comes from putting an end to any want
or desire that is rooted in thinking that makes "being"
happy a condition of doing or being anything or anyone.
The moment we use the words "if" and "because" to
think about happiness, we have undermined our own
ability to be happy.

I've started reminding myself several times every day
that "Happiness is my true nature. Receive the
happiness that has always been within me." And
remember, don't say: "I deserve to be happy." By
saying and believing that you have fallen back into
the trap of making happiness a contingent proposition
in life.

Be happy for happiness sake!

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