Happiness is Your Birthright

It has been said that when we love another and bring them to the sunshine of their own happiness, we too live in the same sunshine of our own happiness then as well.

The truth is that it is only ever the same sunshine. It is the oneness of love loving.

''Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.''

Quoted from: Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

Abraham Lincoln apparently was not a very happy man.

He suffered from severe depression and melancholy for most of his life.

Here's another couple of things that he said.

'' I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.''

and

'' A tendency to melancholy.... let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault. ''

How then could he say this opening quote of his about happiness? What did he know about happiness?

It seems that he himself did not have the strength to just decide to be happy within himself, and he seemed to believe and to accept his unhappiness as being more a result of an unfortunate disposition that was an inherent part of his character, and that he could really not ever do very much about.

It was his lot to be unhappy. Yet in a way, he was happy by fulfilling his role so determinately that no matter amount of failure could ever stop him, and he had far more misfortune that most other men in his life.

Perhaps he was happy being himself, but just didn't full know it. He had forgotten perhaps to love himself enough.

With love comes happiness.

This will be the theme of my present article. My point is that we can never be happy unless it exudes from us from us loving. Happiness is a natural by-product of our loving. This is what I will try to show you in my article.

Is this true, what Abraham Lincoln was saying in my opening quote of his?

Can we just decide to be happy?

Are we sometimes born to be unhappy, like that he thought that he must have been?

What is the natural state of our being? Is it for us to be naturally happy?

All very deep questions to ponder, and my article will try to shed some light on them, and to address some of the possible answers to these particularly vexing questions.

Just, what is happiness?

I have read this advice elsewhere.

We need to only begin by making a decision to be happy, in order for us to be completely happy right now. This author said that if we don't start off with happiness, we are never going to find any other happiness along the way. Happiness comes from the inside of us, and never from the outside.

Now I certainly agree with that. Happiness comes from inside of us all.

This is all so easy for him to just say though, but why I ask you do we even have to stop and think about happiness?

Why do we ever need to even try to make a decision to be happy, if this is all that is ever really required to be happy?

Who is it that is making that decision anyway?

It seems to me like it that must be a very difficult decision for us to be able to make, or otherwise we would surely already all have made it for ourselves by now.

Who would ever choose to be unhappy or to stay unhappy?

The unhappy part of you presumably. Only the unhappy part of you wants to be happy or to find happiness. The only way unhappiness can return to happiness is to give up searching and to be happy in being unhappy. Acceptance of your present state is the first step to seeing the bigger state, that this smaller isolated state is a part of.

When you see that unhappiness exists isolated out only from full happiness, it can disappear again, because really it was never ever there. All is only the oneness of love loving. Anything else is only ever us not seeing this full picture of love sufficiently fully.

Just notice the state of happiness that is even now resting quietly and silently within your own heart, and just be happy.

Be that happiness now. No decision is ever necessary.

Some people tell us that we can think our selves happy. They say to fake happiness in the beginning and it will become real happiness. Put on a smile, and this is half of being happy, or halfway to being happy.

We are either happy or unhappy. I do not think that there is ever a halfway mark.

Full uninterruptable happiness lives in you right now.

Until you decide to live from this your natural state, the parts of you that are not presently basking in full happiness are left feeling cold, simply because complete happiness moves all though you, only as much as you love yourself.

When you do not love yourself, this is a decision being made now in reverse that is acting to also prevent you from feeling your own natural happiness. It always all starts from love.

The search for happiness is simply the search for love.

Love then, to be happy.

Love yourself more, love others more, love life more, love God more.

When you love everything completely fully and unconditionally like this, your happiness then comes out to greet you at one and the same time.

True happiness is never found from anything that is changing.

Happiness exists as part of the unchanging oneness of love. Love, and you will be happy.

It never takes any extra effort to be happy. Happiness should spontaneously erupt from you, the moment that you love. Happiness cannot be isolated and found anywhere within an individual. Only by loving others do we feel the happiness that is to be found within this loving connection of all of the parts within the oneness of God.

Mere satisfaction is not full happiness. Happiness never has to be satisfied.

Happiness is a part of your very nature. Happiness never has to sought. It is the searching for happiness that brings you its opposite, unhappiness. Any search always only leads to its opposite. This is because you always have the object of your search even now sitting within you. As soon as you begin to search outside of you, all you will ever then find is either its reflection or its opposite.

We have all knowledge and all truth continually available to us all within ourselves at all times. If all is oneness, this must, and is always so.

True happiness exists within, and loving is the way to release it within you. Unless you love, you will never be happy. Without love there is no happiness. Lack of conscious awareness stops you from fully loving from the complete happiness that it is possible for you to love from. Deciding to love despite all outer appearances that are trying to stop you, always brings this inner happiness to you.

We are all loving unconsciously. Our journey is to make this loving conscious.

As much as we do so, we will be happy. We are all happy unconsciously, but by not loving fully consciously as yet, this gives us the chance to allow fear and doubt to co-exist. These are only separated out parts of love that we are focussing on only just for now.

All is forever love, and remains forever love at all times. When we can totally and fully love, all else is then dissolved back into love, and so all we ever see is this love, and then we are blissfully happy within the seeing.

Happiness is never your own.

Happiness only exists for you when you return fully into the oneness of God, by loving all of God, loving all of yourself, and loving all other souls totally and perfectly.

This is not as hard as it seems. For you to love perfectly as you, all you need ever do is to be yourself even as you are right now. Tomorrow you will have grown even more in your conscious understanding of love. We never stop growing with love growing right alongside of us.

We are perfect as much as we fully love.

Love in a way is not concerned with happiness. Your full and uninterrupted growth is always more important to it.

Your happiness is only a by-product or reaction from your growth that is taking place within love. Real happiness never has conditions put upon for it to exist under, but it can still live under all such conditions that we ourselves put onto it. Real happiness flows from you only when you love, and when you are growing within this love towards greater understanding, and to a greater wisdom of its application.

Nothing can give you happiness, because nothing owes you happiness. Happiness is not created or purchased. It simply flows forth when you are loving fully, and whenever you are being fully your real self. Happiness is our true nature, and we become happy when we fully live from our true nature, and by lovingly connecting ourselves to all others.

Only the unhappy search for happiness.

Stop searching, and simply start to love more. Don't look for happiness in order only to relieve your unhappiness. Just love, and be happy. Happiness is not caused, and having no cause, nothing can ever cause it to exist within you. Happiness exists as a part of love. It comes to life, as much as you love. All we need ever do is to love, and all else is then supplied, or added onto you, as the Christian bible so nicely puts it.

Unhappiness comes from thinking that you are separate from this overall oneness, and that you therefore have to do something to bring happiness back to you. You are never separated, and are forever independent of all else.

Independent is not isolation. You are yourself within the oneness.

This is the paradox of love. Love only exists from flowing between its illusionary parts within its own oneness. Independence is part of this illusion as much as it is also the only thing that can ever create you as you.

When we realise that we are dependently independent, we realise that the oneness is also infinite.

This realisation, of us existing while not existing, connects us to oneness, while at the same time maintaining our individualness. We are God, by not being God, but by still being God within us.

We are happy only when we are not unhappy.

Work that out, and you will have the secret to perpetual happiness. It is simply just to keep loving all within all.

At this stage, you are no longer interested in obtaining happiness. It is a by-product of your full loving. Happiness follows loving. Love is happy when it is loving. Nothing except love can ever be happy. Love is simply something that contains happiness within it.

It can be found nowhere else, nor within anything else. Love, to be happy.