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Consciousness and Bliss
Soul Happiness Versus Ego Happiness
Real happiness is connected to your eternal self
When you know true happiness, it’s something that isn’t temporary. It’s grounded in your real self — something that doesn’t fade. Life is full of fleeting and changing things, but there are things that don’t depend on the events of your life for their existence. There is a way to be happy without it depending on forces that appear outside your control.
It’s hard to just decide one day not to let things outside you have power over your state of mind. It’s hard to be happy “without a reason” because we are conditioned to believe the value of our lives depends on our possessions, relationships, and status in life. Stuff outside our minds.
It takes the cultivation of non-attachment to really find happiness.
Actually, “happiness” may not even be the right word here. We could say it’s “bliss” or “inner stillness” instead.
When we identify our happiness with the state of the ego, we are giving up control. The ups and downs of life wreak havoc on the ego, causing great suffering and then happiness and then suffering again. From an ego level, there is simply no way to preserve happiness. It comes and it…
