Happier

My new read by Tal Ben-Shahar..."Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment".

I'm not very far in but already, it has me thinking. In revisiting this nirvana that I find myself in right now, I think about my happiness - the core, non-contingent happiness. I have created a space within and around me where I author the steps, the path, the choices, the words, the heres and the nows, the haves and the not-necessaries. I am cultivating a balance like I have yet to know...yet.

I am far from naive. I know that what goes up must come down - the pendulum swings, all that jazz. I know I have not had my share of heartache and that it will come again. I have not had my share of loss, of pain, confusion and the maddening stir of my soul. This is life...the inevitable soulquake of life but from where I am standing right now, I am standing. I am crawling a lot less these days, crying a lot less and kneeling only when I give thanks, for the most part.

I am cultivating happiness that is contingent on nothing outside of me and pulsing from EVERYTHING within.