Finding Your Key to Happiness

What is the key to happiness?

A million different things, any of which can take you to the truth in you that’s already there. It just has to be accessed with totality. Everybody has it, in a different flavor … it may have the flavor of beauty. For somebody else, it has the flavor of strength, or the flavor of wit, or intelligence. For somebody else, it has the flavor of compassion.

There are a thousand different flavors. There is nobody that is not already carrying it. Whatever you are searching for, whatever the road to happiness or truth is for you, it’s already mapped out—it’s already evident in whatever flavor you are giving off. Some people are just plain fun; they walk into a room and everybody feels more of a sense of fun. That’s their flavor. That’s the truth palpitating in them. It’s just like your heartbeat. Everybody is beating their truth. It’s a little more visible in some than in others, but the point is, there are no exceptions.

What is the key to happiness?

It’s whatever is already inserted in you. It’s not far away, not to be found somewhere else. It’s wherever you are sitting. You came here with it. All the spiritual anythings—meditations, spiritual practices, philosophies, religions, spiritual paths—are designed to help you access the key to happiness. It’s not something that’s far away. It’s something that’s already alive in you. If you’re alive and breathing, it’s there in you.

Nobody readily accepts this, because the natural thought is, “maybe him, maybe her, but not me—I’m a mess. I‘m conniving, full of negativity; I get anxiety attacks.” Whatever excuse you use that “it’s everybody but you” is self-deception. If you’re breathing, you’re included. You are not the exception. You are not unique. It is not that you are not the bad one and everybody else is nice. That’s true across the board; that includes evil people. And there are real evil people. But that same spark is in them. That same possibility is still there. The mistake is when you exclude yourself.

What are you doing when you exclude yourself? You are making a judgment. By definition, all judgments are inaccurate. You cannot decide to become happy until you have seen with your own eyes that we actually have a choice.

All I’m really saying is: Don’t trust your judgments so much, and don’t trust your mind or your thoughts so much. See if you can start to trust the truth a little more—the reality, the emanation, the light that shines from your face—that you see so easily in someone else, and that is so hard to see in yourself. It’s just as true of you.