Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

- Denis Waitley

Curing Happiness: What It Means And Why You Need To
Those among us not ready to seek out true happiness will choose, instead, the road most traveled. They will fret not the signs along the way, pointing them in another direction, nor the fact that they have gotten truly, and utterly, lost on their journey. It is on this paved path then, where many before have wandered aimlessly, that they will find themselves without ever really finding themselves.

What they had sought for was happiness, but what they had gotten was anything but. If only they had known that before ever achieving happiness, you must cure yourself from your own notion of it.

We are told on a constant basis that without joy, there is sorrow, but what of sorrow? We are told that without peace, there is war, but what of war? We are even told that without love, there is nothing, but, again, what of nothing? What we are not told of is happiness, or how it can be found within feelings of sorrow, in times of war, and even when we feel that nothing is all that is left. This is because happiness is not outside ourselves, but rather, within us all.

Among many people, “I’ll be happy once I…” is said often enough to be considered a daily affirmation, yet it is believed strongly enough to become more like a prayer. And like that carrot dangling forever out of reach of the horse’s mouth, happiness too is not reached. Never did it stand a chance.
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