Joy

Every human being on the planet wants to be happy. Anything that anyone desires is because they think their desire will make them happy. Whether it is health, money, a loving relationship, material things, accomplishments, a job, or anything at all, the desire for happiness is the bottom line of all of them. 

But remember that happiness is a state inside of us, and something on the outside can only bring fleeting happiness, because material things are impermanent.

Permanent happiness comes from you choosing to be permanently happy. When you choose happiness, then you attract all the happy things as well. The happy things are the icing on the cake, but the cake is happiness. By Rhonda Byrne- Creator of ‘The Secret’

If we think about it, it is so true that the bottom line of all our hard work, our efforts or anything that we toil for is ultimately, to be Happy. We spend most of our lives praying for different things and people to come to us when the only motive to have anybody or anything is to be happy. 

What if we change our line of action; rather than praying to get so and so we directly pray to be happy, to have true joy in our lives. Then anybody or anything which would give us that happiness shall automatically come into our life. 

We humans have such limited capacity to know what is good for us. Most of the time we get obsessively attached to certain things because we believe with our limited mental  capacity that certain thing or person or experience would make us happy. 

We tell God to give us X then we also outline for Him all the ways to get to X. It is so funny that we tell God how to be God.

With best wishes.....

Sonya Syed. (Day 406)