Secrets of Spiritual Happiness

Upgrading Your Spiritual Happiness Software

 

    

 

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The transition into spiritual happiness is kind of like upgrading yourself, as you might upgrade some software on your computer.   You put a new disk in, and the installation program goes through your drives and folders to clean them out and prepare your system for a whole new program and experience - in this case, the experience of spiritual happiness.   After taking out whatever is no longer needed, the installation program then puts in the appropriate replacements and upgrades.  

If you are locking your folders of anger, resentment, fear, and unhappiness by refusing to grow out of your current status, well then, the installation disk won't be able to properly upgrade your computer program, or your spiritual happiness program.   Therefore, in your computer as well as in life, you have to let go of the old to bring in the new.

Once the installation has taken place, the next time you start up that program, it's a whole new look -- with new icons and new capabilities to explore.   It's exciting. You may have some little soft spot of missing the look of the old version, because you had gotten used to it, but you eventually learn to let go of those attachments and to embrace the new version.   Eventually, the new version becomes even more comfortable and familiar than the earlier one was.  

This is a metaphor for what it is like to upgrade your vision into one of spiritual happiness. Everything becomes affected -- your thoughts, actions, interpretations, and life circumstances.   It's upgrading to a better, happier you .  

You may find that this upgrade to spiritual happiness inspires you to interpret and respond differently to various experiences in your life.   Please allow these transformations to happen.   One of the biggest obstacles to spiritual growth and happiness must be our tendency to hold on to old habits and identifications.  

Learn to let go of who you thought you were, and who others think you are, and seek to find your purest self -- the you that you've always wished would be you.

 

 

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