Inner Truth: Simple Happiness

Happiness is the gentle breeze blowing through the branches of a tree, where the leaves seem to sway with joy. Birds’ chirping around the bird bath someone kindly put up in their little garden in the sultry summer heat. A drive on a beautiful road in a foreign land, a phone call from a loved one, the red roses you got yourself for no particular reason, the moment you have just finished doing up your room exactly how you like it, the candles flickering on your well-set dining table, a kind word from someone, the lyrics of an achingly romantic song, a job completed successfully at the right time. It’s an endless list.

We all yearn to be happy, but since what we think happiness is always linked to some distant future event or achievement or our hearts are filled with pain from yesterday – are we ever truly happy?

The present moment is the perfect moment for it is not heavy with the past and hasn’t seen the uncertainty of the future, a simple answer to the quest for happiness.

The author is a reader of dna
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