There once was a very wealthy and successful man. He had more money than he
could ever spend and he was admired and looked up to by his community. Still, he
knew that something was missing in his life. He wasn’t happy. All his life he
had pursued happiness and strived for happiness but had never been able to find
it.
Then one day he heard about a hidden temple in Nepal that had a special room
that contained the secret to happiness. He immediately sold all that he owned
and set out to find this hidden temple. After many years of searching and
countless hardships he arrived there. He was weary and pennyless, but he knew
that none of that mattered now that he had found the temple. He asked a wise,
smiling monk if he could enter the special room. The monk agreed and showed him
the stairs leading to the room. He climbed them with legs shaking with
anticipation and slowly opened the door. He stared into the room with sunlight
streaming through the window and saw what he had come so far to find. There
hanging on the wall was the secret of happiness. The man gazed at his reflection
in the mirror and laughed.
It is time that we all realized that we are the secret to our own happiness.
Happiness is a choice that we make within. God loves us and gives each one of us
the ability to fill our lives with love, joy, peace, happiness, and oneness with
Him. We need only choose to do so moment by moment and day by day. It doesn’t
matter what our outer circumstances are either, because the Kingdom of Heaven is
within us. Don’t spend the rest of your life searching the world for happiness
then. Just look in the mirror and laugh. Just let the happiness flow from your
heart, mind, and soul until it fills your life and the lives of all those around
you.
Joseph J. Mazzella joecool@wirefire.com
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