The Key to Happiness
- 05 January 2011
- Relationships
- Written by Rod Nicholson
We are all broken and hurt to varying degrees and levels. As we pass through life there are many things happen which leave us wondering what life is about. We struggle to live and make money, we struggle with our relationships. We get married and have children full of hope for happiness and often it eludes us. We meet many disappointments and sad experiences. Life at times becomes a vale of tears. We live in fear and anxiety, never sure where we are going and what life is going to turn up next.
Our story is the story of mankind. We achieve happiness for a while and then it disappears as we receive the blows of life in all its sad and sometimes tragic forms. Today, I read about the murder of a fifteen years old girl by a fifteen year old boy. I do not know the details and I really do not want to know. However, my heart goes out to the parents of both children who will be in shock and unable to believe what has happened in their lives. They will be devastated and their hearts full of pain and misery. These are the hammer blows of life that come to us in many different forms. This is where we can end up believing life to be nothing but rubbish and misery with a few moments of relief and happiness thrown in occasionally.
We cannot go into a dream world and believe these terrible things do not happen because they do and each week we see many things that happen to people on the news. These two young people are real and their parents are real. What has happened is real.
Is there an alternative? This is the big question.
Can things be different? Does it have to be this way? Are we as a human race stuck in this cycle? Why is life like this and can we do something about it?
There is a way that is so simple it is hard to believe. We have become so complicated in our thinking that we find it hard to have the simple faith required. What is the way?
It is a returning to faith in the Sacred Oneness of all things. When we actually believe in the Oneness then separation disappears and with the dissolving of separation and merging into the Oneness then we begin to live in a different universe. This is a universe of confidence and power where everything works together in harmony.
If we examine carefully our real moments of happiness in this world we will find that they were moments of merging, of becoming One with something. We can start with our feeling of family. Whenever, we have a family celebration together then people feel happy and not just because they might be having a drink but because they feel to varying degrees they are at one with one another. Remember how you feel when you hug a baby or even stroke an affectionate dog. We can go on a make a very long list here of our moments of happiness and we will see always that they are about merging and bonding, becoming One. If we have few moments of happiness it is because we have few occasions of merging and bonding in our lives.
So, if there is a secret of happiness it lies in our ability to fill our life with merging experiences. We do not have to battle and struggle with fear and anxiety. All we need to do is to bond and nourish this most powerful energy every day and every moment we can. If we begin to do this and put our faith in the Oneness that our lives will be transformed and we will enter a magical universe.
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Rod Nicholson
Author-Businessman-ex monk, ex teacher, ex principal. I believe in the power of the Oneness and would like to play my part in bringing about Sacred Unity.
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