How to be Happy
- By: Dave Ursillo
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If you do not have a map that shows you where Happiness is hiding, then how can it ever be found?
Happiness is not buried in a secret location. Happiness is around us every day; it is within ourselves. We just need to let it come out.
Happiness, love, compassion engulf and surround us always. Stop looking, and you will see it. Stop searching, and it will find you.
Being happy is about being. Being.
Not being any thing, not being any one… it’s about Being.
If this is a foreign concept to you, a disturbing one; if it sounds too good to be true or too simplistic or illogical or impossible… stop. Just stop. Stop thinking, stop trying, stop searching, stop looking, start Being.
Everything else will fall into place.
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Brett Kunsch
Just “being” is such an elegant approach to happiness. It doesn’t require anything but ceasing to attempt controlling outcomes you have little control over and stopping the constant seeking of others’ approval.
Keep spreading the good word, Dave!
Mar 14 2011 / 02:03 pm
Dave Ursillo
Thanks Brett, I agree and think we probably all tend to over-think the idea of how to be happy. Real happiness comes from within; no material object can provide happiness.
Comforts, possessions and guilty pleasures give us temporary satisfaction, but there is a reason why some of the richest people in the world feel so empty inside and devoid of happiness.
Mar 14 2011 / 06:03 pm
Diana Antholis
It’s funny because someone said once “I just want to be happy. Ha – “just” – like it’s this tangible thing.”
It’s all about being and knowing who you are.
Mar 17 2011 / 07:03 pm
Dave Ursillo
I think the issue of how to simply "be" comes from our minds' trying to rationally understand or logically explain what it means to "be" ... do I just sit here? Become idle? Indifferent? Of course not :)
Thus what helps to break the bond that ego has upon our thoughts is to pursue purpose and fulfillment in life... something we think we are meant to do on Earth for others.
When we come into alignment with purposeful living and the feeling of earnest fulfillment... and escape the ego inside our heads... suddenly "being" makes so much more sense. :)
Mar 23 2011 / 10:03 am
Jackie Rose (@letssitoutside)
Wonderful post. Love that you kept it short and so beautifully concise.
I have experienced this. Funny, you can’t work on being, you have to just be. The more I try to just be though, the less I find I’m just being and the more I find I’m frustrated in trying. Something like this used to sound strange to me until I became familiar with being, with the practice of relaxing and clearing away inside until there was nothing left but being. No judgment, no performance, no comfort or lack of comfort, just being. And what bliss, what pure happiness in that being.
For me that’s a huge part of my meditation practice, maintaining a clear path to that happiness and striving to connect that happiness to everything throughout my day, not just when I consciously decide I am meditating.
Anyway, off my mind goes wanting to explain what you have so stated so lovely, instead of just letting it be!
Thank you!
Mar 22 2011 / 11:03 pm
Dave Ursillo
Jackie, what I've been drawn to more and more in recent weeks is the dichotomy you eluded to and that I kind of touched upon in this piece:
"Being" is an element of trusting, of natural completeness and imperfect wholeness... completely within ourselves. We know "being" leads to happiness but we have a hard time really understanding or explaining *what* being is, or *how* we "just be".
It's hard to wrap our minds around the concept. It's not easy to explain in any way, shape or form, and almost seems counterproductive or counter-logical.
Mar 23 2011 / 10:03 am
Marty
That’s it man. Just let go the burden!
Apr 11 2011 / 11:04 am
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