The Happy Mind Book — Living happiness from the inside out

Pure joy is your truth!

You are an expression of pure joy

(To read this series from the beginning, click here.)

Happiness is your natural state of being. In your deepest truth, you are the expression and embodiment of pure joy, absolute bliss. That is your truth, and it never changes. And nothing that you do and nothing that happens to you can change that truth.

You can’t lose that joy, because that is what you are. No one can take it away from you, because it is what you are.

Your experience of happiness

But your experience of joy (and love and peace and well-being) depends on your own self-awareness of that inner truth. When you are self-awarely living your deepest truth, you experience a deep sense of joy and love and well-being.

Happiness is how you feel when you are allowing your deepest inner truth to express itself in your awareness and experience. Happiness is how you feel when you are aware of your inner truth. True self-awareness is experienced as joy.

In be happy, Robert Holden says, “When you forget who you are, you forget what happiness is. And when you forget what happiness is, you suffer. … The primary cause of all suffering is forgetting the true nature of your Unconditioned Self.” And “Happiness is God’s way of reminding you who you really are.” (p. 44ff.)

Allowing Happiness

“Happiness is your natural state of being” is not just good news. It’s the best possible news. It reminds us that this state of being that we search for (for both ourselves and others) in everything we do is already and always our inner truth. You don’t have to chase it or achieve it or earn it or make it—it’s what you always and already are. You only have to allow it—allow your inner nature of joy to express itself. That means, you only have to stop blocking it.

A Course in Miracles says, “The search for truth is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes with truth. Truth is. It can neither be lost nor sought nor found.” The search for truth is a process of removing the inner obstacles to truth.

And since happiness is the quality of life associated with realizing truth, we could also say that the search for happiness is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes with happiness.