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. beca lewis
HAPPINESS NOW
by
Beca Lewis © 5/2008
One of the happiness times of my life almost never happened because
I didn’t like the idea of going out at night, and I didn’t
want to miss the rerun of my favorite show at the time, Perry Mason.
Go ahead laugh, but seriously that was my reason. I had to
force myself past these two issues to do something I knew would take
up every extra minute of my life, which I didn’t feel I had
many of, for the next few years.
But I did it. I started a dance company while attending college
full time, raising children and working at least one part time job
to support my family.
I had lots of excuses that were even better than not wanting
to go out at night and missing Perry Mason, but my human sense of
myself tried to stop me from experiencing full happiness with something
that inane.
I could have used any of the other reasons and anybody would
have understood and agreed with me that I was too busy, but when I
listened within I found those two excuses were the real reasons I
was stopping myself.
Once those hidden reasons were revealed I had a choice of
accepting them as real or setting them aside and doing it anyway,
which is what I did. The result of choosing what looked so hard to
do was a time that everyone involved still recalls as a brilliantly
happy experience, full of priceless memories.
I heard a woman explain why she was not fully expressing
herself by saying, “I guess I am delaying my happiness.” Don’t
we all delay our happiness at least some of the time? Why we do this
isn’t important. We could take lots of time and drill down into
our human situation and find perfectly acceptable reasons for delaying
or never accepting happiness with and as our life.
But why waste time with the why we aren’t happy, when knowing
why we are not happy is not necessary to be happy. In fact, this is
often another excuse for delaying happiness.
Instead let’s move to happiness now by stepping out of the human “why” and “why
not.” Let’s go to where happiness is a quality that
always exists and can never, ever be replaced by sorrow.
Which is where? Not in the human duality point of view. Not
within the state of mind of not being good enough, not the right time,
feeling guilty, feeling superior, feeling old, useless, wrong sex,
wrong height, weight, intelligence, skill, no – not beginning
within the worldview.
The where is here and the time is now. It is within the understanding
that what we call the force of life, the substance of being is Mind
Itself, the infinite intelligence of Love, Loving Itself. Here is
where happiness is the substance of our being. Not something
that must be attained, but what is now.
We can see it everywhere, a baby’s laugh, a bird song, a tree
in the breeze, a flower blooming. These are the symbols, the signs,
the proof of Love as the only cause and creator. We will see
more of these outward expressions only as we begin within the Truth
of being and stay there.
What appears without will become closer and closer to the
essence of Truth, not because we are creating it or making it happen,
but because we are lifting the veil from our eyes, or more accurately
our perception. The mist dissolves revealing Life living Itself.
Happiness can not be stopped from being the essence of our
lives by those seemingly logical reasons that the dualist worldview
gives when we see them for what they are, lies.
We can never change an outward appearance by remaining unhappy,
but when we choose an inward happiness it will shift what appears
without in ways far beyond any human outlining.
We can choose to be happy now, even when we are surrounded
by people who are not happy, and who have good reasons why they aren’t. If
we really want to help them, we must step out of that story and light
the way for them by revealing happiness in and as our life now.
It doesn’t need to take years, months, days or even hours to
be happy now. When we stand in Truth, Truth will set us free.
With Love,
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