Now That I Know That I Am

It Is Your Right To Be Happy. This Is What You Were Made For. And If You Will Not Resist, Happiness Will Find A Way To Pour From Your Heart And Fill Your Days.

Problems Assault Us To The Degree They Preoccupy Us. The Key To Release, Rest, And Inner Freedom Is Not The Elimination Of All External Difficulties. It Is Letting Go Of Our Pattern Of Reactions To Those Difficulties.

The Components Of Happiness Are Quite Simple. Happiness Is Gentleness, Peace, Concentration, Simplicity, Forgiveness, Humor, Fearlessness, Trust, And Now. In Its True Form Each Quality Includes All The Rest, For Happiness Is Whole, And One Feels Whole When Genuinely Happy.

Boredom Or Discontent Is Useful To Me When I Acknowledge It And See Clearly My Assumption That There's Something Else I Would Rather Be Doing. In This Way Boredom Can Act As An Invitation To Freedom By Opening Me To New Options And Thoughts. For Example, If I Can't Change The Activity, Can I Look At It More Honestly?

There Were Seventy-five People In The Lobby And Only A Seven-year-old Girl Was Finding Out What It Felt Like To Sit On The Marble Floor