Happiness

"To be happy, to possess eternal life, to be in God, to be saved -- all these are the same. All alike mean the solution to the problem, the aim of existence. And happiness is cumulative, as misery may be. An eternal growth is an unchangeable peace, an ever more profound depth of understanding, a possession constantly more intense and more spiritual with the joy of heaven -- this is happiness. Happiness has no limits." - Amiel
  
This morning I feel like writing about the above quote from the Swiss philosopher, poet, and critic, Henri Frédéric Amiel, who lived from 1821 to 1881. I am writing for my own benefit, using our open classroom to increase my understanding, which is making right use of the classroom. What is more important than spiritual understanding? As far as I know, nothing. By writing about a quote of spiritual Truth, I am exercising my spiritual mind. I am reaching higher and asking God and angels to help me understand. I am putting Truth first. When we put Truth first, Truth puts us first.

Below the line below :) are the rest of my early morning musings, although I am just now posting it. I awake very early, doing my meditations, meditative writings, which help take me within and prepare me for the day.

What the poet-philosopher, Amiel is saying is simple, but not easy to understand for the mind, which is not adept at understanding the spiritual. Happiness means having eternal life. What does that mean? Happiness is eternal. Happiness does not exist in time, because time is part of the illusion, the delusion, which keeps us in seclusion from Truth. Happiness and eternal life mean to be in God. We are within God, no longer separate. We are saved. We are saved from the pain that living in ego causes. We are either in ego or in God. In God we are saved.

Happiness, which means eternal life, in God, is the aim of our existence. We are here to come into the wholeness of God, to know eternal life. We are here to be happy. This is the only real solution. There are certainly earthly solutions to earthly problems. But the only cure for soul sickness is spiritual healing. It doesn't matter what we have in this earthly life, because if we do not have God, we are bereft.

I like that Amiel says that happiness is cumulative. It adds up! It increases! It gets more! (Just as misery may, but who wants more of misery--only ego.)

And happiness has no limits! It continues to grow and evolve within us. This eternal growth is a peace that never changes. There is more and more understanding at a great spiritual depth. We enter into the changeless, the peace of heaven. It is a dynamic process. It is like diving into water, that first wonderful awakening splash - suddenly we are plunged into a new world, a new life, soundless, silent, still, and as we go deeper, we remain in the same water, but our experience deepens, as we go deeper. It is an alive, awake, aware, dynamic process, even as we are one with the water.

Entering the great Oneness of God is similar. Then, even though I am here in this world -- talk and look the same to people around me, there are still the everyday situations of life to deal with -- but I am not living in this world, in the way I used to. I am in the world, but not of the world. It doesn't matter anymore then what people around me see when they look at me. My inner state is no longer dependent upon outer reflections. I am not looking to other people to build up my ego because the ego has ceased to control me. I have ceased to identify with it. I am living life in a completely vertical way. I do not need to get my (false) sustenance from the world -- because I exist as a fountain -- flowing ever upward towards God, connecting with God's light, and then I am nourished. Filled. Whole. I am in heaven here and now, this very moment, in the presence of God and angels. There is happiness. This is heaven. A heaven that continues to expand, grow and deepen because -- as Amiel says -- happiness has no limits!

So this is what has come from my early morning musings. And as I wrote I felt I was in heaven. I felt I was a fountain, flowing up to God to gather strength and nurturance, then flowing back down again to live life, constantly flowing, a fountain of light. Much love and a heavenly day to you all.