If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all human beings despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.

If the mind can reach a state where it is free from its own ideas, projections, and wishes, it can reach true happiness.

In order to reach joy, one must throw all teachings and books into the ocean. 


Jules Renard said. "I am a happy man because I have renounced happiness." 

Artificial pleasures are not the same as enduring happiness. They come from outside, from stimulated senses, whereas it comes from within.

The Surprisingly Happy Journals of Jules Renard

The Emily Dahl Foundation 
Sunday, December 12, 2021