Happy is he who lives in harmony with his soul, who follows the path of his destiny, who acts in accordance with the dictates of his own conscience.
A distinction should be made between the state of happiness and the state of momentary satiety. Happiness is timeless and does not depend on external circumstances. The joy from achieving the goal, the pleasure from the satisfaction of desire, has nothing to do with the achievement of happiness. This is just a momentary reaction of the mind, comparable to getting rid of suffering.
Satisfaction is a short-term happiness passing through the contentment of the animal nature in a person. Such contentment comes immediately after saturation with material goods - the moment of the onset of satiety, the acquisition of the desired thing or position. But satiation does not satisfy a person once and for all. Time will pass, and saturation will recede, making room for new desires and thirsts.
Happiness is not a reaction to an external, but an internal state of goodness. This condition cannot be disturbed by bad food or the lack of a new iPhone. A happy person may be hungry or tired, but still happy.
Once you've been doing something you like, you must have experienced a state of happiness. When we work to exhaustion, forgetting about food and water, we enthusiastically solve the task set before us, we are truly happy. At such moments, all the physiological causes of the external world fade into the background, and we remember them just enough to maintain life in our bodies.
Failure to fulfill the tasks of one's soul, avoiding one's own conscience plunges a person into despondency. Despondency often leads a person into a false search, and he mistakenly begins to seek happiness in receiving pleasure, confusing it with short-term joy. And if in a state of happiness earthly goods are used in moderation, then in a state of despondency the measure is often violated. Unhappy people seize grief with ice cream or completely lose interest in food, not finding the desired state in saturation.
Lack of happiness indicates that a person muffles the voice of his inner essence: he has gone astray and has gone too far from the true desires of his heart. In this case, there is no point in looking for happiness in the distance - in achieving conditional tasks and goals set by the rational mind. The mind does not know what the heart wants, because it does not understand feelings. The mind recognizes only desires and thirsts and can only suggest methods for obtaining short-term pleasure, with which the tasks of the soul, as a rule, are not connected.
Only the realization of this will help in achieving happiness. Where did you turn in the wrong direction, where did you go astray, where did you go against the call of your heart, guided only by reason? Happiness will smile again when we turn one hundred and eighty degrees, when we face it. It will come the very moment we take the first step towards our spiritual essence.
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Author: Elena Zakharchenko