Personality

ching this search for happiness we cannot help but ask "what is happiness?" "Where is it to be found, and how do we recognize a life which has found it?" There are many definitions for happiness, but it seems that the only real answer is to say "happiness is found by simply getting what we want." There are grades and grades of happiness, for there are grades and grades of desire. The soul which desires, then realizes that desire and which knows that every other desire which it may ever have, will also be realized, is the one, and the only one, which can say it has found happiness. We were taught by the older thought people that self-denial was the first law of our beings, and that with "renunciation life began." This has led humanity out into an endless concentration along lines of lack and loss. Half the world believes it cannot have what it wants. Today we do not believe that teaching and know it never was meant to be what the world has interpreted it to be. Today we know that we can be what we will to be, and that the all will wants us to have everything we want, and will back us for every desire of our lives. We know that happiness is the law of life, and man's natural condition; that unhappiness is a disease and the sign of a life astray from the Infinite union. We believe in God now more and more, because we believe in ourselves more and more, and we see always something in our every action that speaks of Him and His infinite care. Today we do not lay down our desires and try and try to say "Thy will be done" but we know that our will is His will, and we can say with an exaltation of spirit, it is His will that we meet His will, and we can meet it unafraid. Happiness and unhappiness are conditions of the mind and have nothing to do with real life. Life is full of curious contradictions and conditions, all set in motion by our own and other peoples' ignorance, and it is the position we assume toward these conflicting forces which determine whether we shall be happy or otherwise. It is no one's fault but our own if we are unhappy; it is no one's fault but our own if we are sick, poor or full of lack. The whole scheme of existence makes 57 for happiness and all life is full, complete, serene, only awaiting our own awakening to that fact. There are always two ways of looking at these things which we want, and which we think are necessary for our happiness. One is to determine whether from our view-point we consider them attainable; and if we are