Happiness and Simplicity
Posted by Michael Adams on December 6, 2009
in Happiness, Simplicity
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Louie Clearheart of The Love That I Am
Many of us have heard the saying, “live simply, simply live.” This is a key to happiness. It is when we make things too complex, or entertain too much drama in our lives (or more frequently our thoughts), that pain comes, suffering comes, and unhappiness comes.
Surprisingly, many of us are addicted to drama. We identify with it: all of the thoughts around excuses, reasons, judgments and justifications, or the endless “what if…?” scenarios we may play in our minds. Without all that, “who would we be?” we think.
Actually, a better question is, “what would we be?”
And the answer?
Happy.
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So true. Our thoughts, our worries, our plans…. All forms of self-validation without which we get nervous because they confirm to us that we exist.
Each moment is but a flicker of light, gone instantly. We as we exist in the moment is the same — gone before our thoughts are complete. When we start to understand our non-existence, we start to waste less energy on worrying. However, this is easy to say and very difficult to do. I still worry a lot.
So it’s back to training. But in the meantime, we can be good to each other, and to ourselves.
All the best,
Rui
Happiness cannot be without suffering. Life should be seen in the light of understanding, never of resistance.