What is True Happiness? Part One

Happiness can not be found in material possesions. It is not what we own that makes us happy. This earthy life is but for a moment of our entire existence.

If you were able to sit in a room surround by all our most finest possesions for a hundred years all they would become is dust, nothing.

Happiness comes from inside your being. We are not just flesh and bones. Each of us contains a spirit, a soul, our essence that is eternal. Take that spirit or soul out and we are no more than earth and water. The body is but fluids, minerals that in time break down to ash.

While on this earth we need to take care of our bodies to stay healthy. Taking care of our body brings health. When our bodies health is having an illness we find it hard to be happy. Being healthy is a foundation to happiness in this earthly life.

This is not to say that a person suffering from a terminal illness can not be happy. This is not a contridiction to the statement above. A person who is happy, yet terminal has already realized the next level built upon the the foundation health. They have ascended above the foundation to knowing and having peace within their mind. They have mentally accepted their condition and sometimes more, keep reading.

The mind on the foundation of a healthy body makes us a functioning part of this earth. Able to survie, do and be a part of living. We function logically and are able to follow routine, learn, above that of a machine. Yet still at this level we are empty vessels. We are alive but not happy. We can try and think ourselves happy but this is not true happiness.

Yes there can be intermediate levels between the three base levels or even higher levels. However I am writing about the three, the base and two levels. I will not get into details of psychiatric conditions of the mind as there are volumes already written over the ages.

The base Health, the second level the mind, and the third level the soul, the essence is the level where true happiness resides. Some may say personality and disposition are what made a person happy. Personality comes from a combining of the mind and soul or essence. Many people think they are happy and outwardly may appear so you would believe they are.

There are people who are said to have no soul or conscience as you hear or read the news they are there. Those who have pushed their soul or essence out of their mind, their own being, and do harm to others.

The elusive happiness, where can it be found?

Inside you, your own body, mind, and spirit combined in union, in harmony. Doing what you know is the right thing to do, first by loving and caring for yourself.

Caring and concern for others doing good and harming none.

Being and finding peace from within and of the earth and all that abides and lives.

What are your ways of happiness?