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Terminus Happiness

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ~ Albert Camus

Albert Camus said we shouldn’t analyze happiness or the meaning of life too much, otherwise they elude us. Socrates, on the other hand, apparently said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Terminus

Destined for HAPPY,
“Am I?” Always up ahead,
“Maybe tomorrow!”

My impression is that many people are searching for these two important things, and they are often deeply intertwined. Personally I think that finding happiness and meaning in life requires some courage and taking risk. Henry David Thoreau may have agreed with me. He said, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” (I interpret this as, afraid to take the leap to find their own fulfillment and happiness, but that is just my take on it.)

Confused yet? Perhaps the real point here is that the source of happiness and meaning in any person’s life is extremely personal to them, so let’s “live and let live”.

Reverence for life and respect for others is (I think) an important part of the journey, and therein may lie the seed of an answer. When we get out of ourselves (and therefore out of our own way), and when we focus more on what we can do for others, we begin to find happiness and meaning. So Albert may have been right all along…

Or, as the people at Nike would say, “Just do it”. Because the day you focus on where you will find happiness, is a day you are not really living.

A related recent post on my Humanity’s Future Substack site: Doubling Down on Our Smiling

Kindness Counts

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Be kind. Each drop of kindness is a spark of light we contribute to humanity. It ripples ever outward, with healing grace. Kindness is a simple, small act of love. It shows we care about the world around us. It gets us out of “me”, into “what can I do for others?”

It does not have to be costly in terms of time or money. It can be as simple as a smile, a compliment, a few random words of encouragement. But it likely means more to the receiver than we might imagine. In a nutshell, it shows them that there are still people “out there” who care.

Kindness + caring = a happier world. “Service to self “and “service to others” seem to be increasingly divergent paths in the world right now. Which path will we each follow? Perhaps a healthy balance between the two is in order…

So, don’t forget to be kind to yourself too.

Susan L Hart / HartInspirations.com / Subscribe

Message in a Bottle

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Message in a Bottle

Chisel not my name
onto elegant stone,
so you that I love
might become slave
to a time and place
that no longer holds
my soul, to which you
could become tied,
lost in sorrow and
life’s limitations.

Rather, joyfully cast
my dust to the wind, so
I may dance on the breeze,
and one day as the leaves
rustle gently overhead,
you will feel me there,
riding a ray of sunshine
kissing your face, and
I’ll whisper in your ear,
“Remember to live free.”

Message in a Bottle is an excerpt from Soul Journey: The Poetry of Life

Yes You Can

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So many people believe they have no power as an individual to change the world, but yes we do. It is simply the thought that we have no power that disempowers us, nothing else. (And the matrix of society intentionally feeds us the idea that we don’t, consequently when we accept it, we don’t.)

When we each embrace our own inner power to create the world WE want, we will be come the collective that does.

The image is a quote from my fiction story, The Turquoise Heart.

Becoming Wholly One

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Life is a soul journey of learning here on this 3rd-dimension Earth plane. When we realize as a collective our true worth, and the full potential and purpose of our being, things will really change for the better on this planet.

Wholly is an excerpt from Soul Journey: The Poetry of Life.