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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 are focused solely 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

Message in a Bottle

Becoming Wholly One

Stone’s Throw Away

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One might imagine I wrote this poem about a personal relationship, but no, I wrote it for humanity. And I guess “relationship” applies anyway, because aren’t we all having a relationship with each other?

It’s time to stop throwing stones of hatred, and remember the underlying love that binds us together. Or, how are we ever going to overcome the problems in the world?

Stone’s Throw Away is an excerpt from Humanity’s Lament: Poetry for Our Times

Getting Better at Gratitude

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During Masaru Emoto’s experiments with water, he discovered that water responded to “Thank You” even more strongly than the word “Love”. The water formed more beautiful ice crystals when frozen.

Gratitude is one of our highest expressions of Love. It is one of the most powerful ways we can personally transform the world. It therefore behooves us to get better at saying it more often. 🙂 A happier world is a more abundant world.

Each day is a gift, and the present moment is the only certain one. There is beauty and sacredness to be found in every single day, when we choose to live that way. It’s the small things all around us all the time that give life its true magic. Intentionally taking notice of life’s beauty makes life feel infinitely richer, and when we express gratitude for it, we also amplify our abundance. That which we focus on expands, so more comes back to us in an upward positive energy spiral of our own making.

Smile

Smiles have
this way, they
captivate and
illuminate,
they raise up
our energy
and light up
the world,
they ripple
outward and
boomerang
back to us,
they’re a gift
we give to others
and to ourselves,
so just –

Smile.