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Happiness is your natural state
9 December 2024
Happiness is your natural state. It is totally independent of whatever you have, be, or do, yet it improves all that you experience. It makes it all more enjoyable, precious, and easier. Happiness really is who you are, and you can experience this for yourself by looking openly and honestly at your own direct experience.
If you are in doubt that this is possible for you, that is okay. I encourage you to believe nothing that you read in this book until you can prove it for yourself. But I promise you that what this book points to is really possible for you. I have the absolute conviction that you can uncover your ultimate happiness and live it in every moment. This conviction is based on my own direct experience over more than four decades of working with the teachings of the late Lester Levenson, my friend, mentor, and the coauthor of this book, and then sharing his teachings with hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
Quite simply put, happiness is you being your Self. Not the limited self that you pretend to be most of the time, but the unlimited Self that you are and have always been. This is the Self that is always effortlessly present before, during, and after everything else that appears in your experience. You are the radiant yet changeless background that allows for everything else to exist, even in a tumultuous world.
For most of us, this is not our living experience. We have covered over our Beingness with thoughts, feelings, and beliefs to the contrary. We now spend most of our time bolstering the illusions that we have created for ourselves, leaving very little time for the inner reflection that can set us free from this totally self-imposed and artificial sense of limitation.
It takes tremendous energy to maintain the illusion that unlimited Beingness is actually limited to the particular body-mind that you call yourself. No wonder we are so exhausted most of the time. We have unlimited energy available to us, but instead of using this energy for good or to discover who we truly are, we use this energy to convince ourselves and others around us that we are limited—that we have personal problems.
If you are in doubt that this is possible for you, that is okay. I encourage you to believe nothing that you read in this book until you can prove it for yourself. But I promise you that what this book points to is really possible for you. I have the absolute conviction that you can uncover your ultimate happiness and live it in every moment. This conviction is based on my own direct experience over more than four decades of working with the teachings of the late Lester Levenson, my friend, mentor, and the coauthor of this book, and then sharing his teachings with hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
Quite simply put, happiness is you being your Self. Not the limited self that you pretend to be most of the time, but the unlimited Self that you are and have always been. This is the Self that is always effortlessly present before, during, and after everything else that appears in your experience. You are the radiant yet changeless background that allows for everything else to exist, even in a tumultuous world.
For most of us, this is not our living experience. We have covered over our Beingness with thoughts, feelings, and beliefs to the contrary. We now spend most of our time bolstering the illusions that we have created for ourselves, leaving very little time for the inner reflection that can set us free from this totally self-imposed and artificial sense of limitation.
It takes tremendous energy to maintain the illusion that unlimited Beingness is actually limited to the particular body-mind that you call yourself. No wonder we are so exhausted most of the time. We have unlimited energy available to us, but instead of using this energy for good or to discover who we truly are, we use this energy to convince ourselves and others around us that we are limited—that we have personal problems.
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