Secrets of Spiritual Happiness

The Theories Behind Spiritual Happiness

 

    

 

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The main theory behind spiritual happiness is that everything is divine, everything is a gift from God, and everything is your own deepest consciousness bursting forth into a phenomenal life experience that is ultimately your creation, and in a sense, your life-dream.

Remember the nursery rhyme, "Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream; merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream?"     As this song teaches, once you know that life is but a dream, you will be able to row your boat -- not just merrily, but merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily down the stream.   That's spiritual happiness!

Spiritual happiness comes from having a bigger, more long-term view of life, within which our inevitable ups and downs can be seen as hills and valleys amidst a vast, ever changing landscape.   With the vision of spiritual happiness, we trust in universal grace and perfection - even while acknowledging that there is much we don't know about how "IT" all works.  

In today's desire- and commercial-based society, spiritual happiness is somewhat of an acquired taste.   External-based happiness can often seem to be more tangible than the deep, inner stream of spiritual happiness.   After all, outer triggers of happiness are easier to find.   They're what most of us are used to.   Something good happens today, and we feel happy today.   If something good doesn't happen tomorrow, then we'll be hungry for another shot of outer happiness.   Outer happiness is like a drug or junk food -- it's quick and easy, but not always good for our ultimate well-being.  

Spiritual happiness, on the other hand, is a delicacy that can only be tasted by a tongue that has lowered its dependence on the "cayenne pepper" of worldly pleasures.   Therefore, we may have to lower our emotional dependence on worldly pleasures before our "happiness sensors" can become refined enough to taste the more delicate flavors of spiritual happiness.

One of the main secrets of spiritual happiness is to make positive use of the immense power of your mind, your thoughts, and the way you view the world.   If you trust that everything that comes to you is somehow a blessing, that very trust will to help to make it so.   Your trust in the blessing is a blessing in and of itself.  

A positive and optimistic view of life is essential for true spiritual happiness, with faith and trust in the loving hand of universal grace that is always there to hold us and guide our steps.

 

 

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