What Needs to Happen to Make Us Happy?

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I think happiness in life boils down to two questions:


1) What needs to happen for us to be happy in the present moment?

2) What are we doing to make it happen?

If we are uncertain about the answer to either of these questions, we may be left wondering what our purpose in life is, and we may feel lonely even when surrounded by friends.

It seems that we have a tendency of living either in the future or the past. We may want things to be in our life that are not there. They may have been there in the past or we may be hopeful they will be in our future. In both cases we are not living in the present moment.

The key to living in the present moment is to recognize that life is a progression. If we want something physical in the present that is not there, such as a new car, we should not allow our happiness to be delayed until the new car is in our driveway. Instead we should try to enjoy the happiness of knowing that we are taking action toward putting that new car in the driveway. The path of a new car in the driveway includes preparing for the new car, maintaining the new car once it arrives, and occasionally reminiscing about the fun you had with the new car once it is gone. All the above elements are along the path of the new car, and all can be part of our happiness. Yearning only for the moment that the new car arrives takes us out of the present moment at every other moment along the new car path. The single moment that the new car arrives in our driveway is a moment that is fleeting, and making our happiness dependent on that moment makes our happiness also fleeting.

I use a physical example above since it makes it easy to convey the idea, however the same concept could be applied to both mental and spiritual states that we seek.  The law of attraction can be used to put us on the path toward that which we seek.  Once we are on said path, the sought element becomes part of our life in some aspect of all levels in the present moment.

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