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Joy To The World – 2

Joy To The World – 2
So, despite what retailers say in an attempt to get the cash registers ca-chinging during the holidays, if what we get in our stocking is not the way to measure true happiness and joy, what is?  I mean, isn’t this too critical a subject to be left to chance?
Yes, Virginia, it is important how and where we should turn to seek out our personal keys to happiness.  However far too many people turn in the wrong direction and look in all the wrong places, ending up with lives ranging from active mental suffering to quiet desperation.
Take, for example, all those who seek fame and power.  Even more seductive than the ownership of “things”, the need to be the center of attention, to find our own validation in the adoration of others is a sad state of affairs, indeed.   I’m old enough to remember actress Sally Field standing on stage receiving an award and spontaneously gushing with tears in her eyes,  “You do love me.  You really do love me.”  How sad that the joy that she felt at that moment only became real because of the applause of others.  What anxieties and insecurities had she been carrying around all her life?
Then there are those who base their happiness on what they do for a living.  Don’t misunderstand, liking your work and how you spend your days is a good thing.  However, enjoying your job and measuring your own self worth by that job are two separate things.  In today’s economy someone is just as likely to find himself unemployed and on the street through no fault of your own as not.  And should that happen, the financial miscalculations of others should not be a factor in assessing your own self esteem.
So if happiness is not to be measured by what we have, or what we get, or what we do, or what others think of us, what’s left?  Love?  Relationships? The inner feelings we have for another?Yes, we’re getting closer.  But, even though love can bring us to the heights of ecstasy and fulfillment doesn’t it also drop us into the pits of despair when it is taken away?  Aren’t these feelings as fleeting and dependent on others as anything else we’ve mentioned so far?
Well, yes and no.  Love that is equated to some external person or object is dependent on one’s continuing relationship with that person or object.  Too many broken hearts attest to that fact.  However, love and joy that exists on its own is something else indeed.  It is generated from within and is the source of all our highest and most transcendental experiences.  It is the place from which all our love, and caring, and kindness, and compassion for others flows, and even more importantly, is where we get our feelings of self worth and absolute joy.  This is the true nature of our absolute being and so deeply embedded within us that it is sadly most often overlooked by those of us caught up in the noise and bustle of the outside world.  We’ll examine this source of true joy more closely in next week’s posting.
peace……………ag
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So, despite what retailers say in an attempt to get the cash registers ca-chinging during the holidays, if what we get in our stocking is not the way to measure true happiness and joy, what is? I mean, isn’t this too critical a subject to be left to chance?

Yes, Virginia, it is important how and where we should turn to seek out our personal keys to happiness.  However far too many people turn in the wrong direction and look in all the wrong places, ending up with lives ranging from active mental suffering to quiet desperation.

Take, for example, all those who seek fame and power.  Even more seductive than the ownership of “things”, the need to be the center of attention, to find our own validation in the adoration of others is a sad state of affairs, indeed.   I’m old enough to remember actress Sally Field standing on stage receiving an award and spontaneously gushing with tears in her eyes,  “You do love me. You really do love me.”  How sad that the joy that she felt at that moment only became real because of the applause of others.  What anxieties and insecurities had she been carrying around all her life?

Then there are those who base their happiness on what they do for a living.  Don’t misunderstand, liking your work and how you spend your days is a good thing. However, enjoying your job and measuring your own self worth by that job are two separate things.  In today’s economy someone is just as likely to find himself unemployed and on the street through no fault of your own as not. And should that happen, the financial miscalculations of others should not be a factor in assessing your own self esteem.

So if happiness is not to be measured by what we have, or what we get, or what we do, or what others think of us, what’s left?  Love?  Relationships? The inner feelings we have for another? Yes, we’re getting closer.  But, even though love can bring us to the heights of ecstasy and fulfillment doesn’t it also drop us into the pits of despair when it is taken away?  Aren’t these feelings as fleeting and dependent on others as anything else we’ve mentioned so far?

Well, yes and no.  Love that is equated to some external person or object is dependent on one’s continuing relationship with that person or object.  Too many broken hearts attest to that fact. However, love and joy that exists on its own is something else indeed.  It is generated from within and is the source of all our highest and most transcendental experiences.  It is the place from which all our love, and caring, and kindness, and compassion for others flows, and even more importantly, is where we get our feelings of self worth and absolute joy.  This is the true nature of our absolute being and so deeply embedded within us that it is sadly most often overlooked by those of us caught up in the noise and bustle of the outside world.  We’ll examine this source of true joy more closely in next week’s posting.

peace……………ag

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