Meditations on God

Happiness is a strange thing.

It is not sustainable, nor is it meant to be.

What makes you happy momentarily will not keep you happy forever.

When you expect happiness to be permanent, you are setting yourself up for disappointment when it inevitably fades.

Because of its transient nature, the pursuit of happiness is also the inadvertent pursuit of unhappiness because when you pursue happiness, you are pursuing something that you cannot keep.

It is better, therefore, to let happiness come to you.

Happiness is better experienced as a pleasant surprise than as an expectation.

When it comes, it comes and when it goes, it goes.

By removing expectations, you get to experience happiness in the moment without being let down when it leaves you.

Enjoy whatever moments of happiness you are fortunate enough to experience.

Be present for them without clinging to them or chasing them and you may find that they are more plentiful and more meaningful than when you anticipate or expect them.