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I’ll start with that which we’re all interested in, all right?
The word that I like best for our subject is Happiness.
When we analyze that which everyone is seeking or looking for, it is happiness, right? And when you
find God, your Self, that turns out to be the ultimate happiness.
When we seek and find the full truth, the absolute truth, again that turns out to be the Ultimate
happiness. We’re all seeking the greatest good for ourselves.
The ultimate good turns out to be the ultimate happiness.
Every being is seeking freedom and the complete freedom or liberation is nothing
but the ultimate happiness.
So in the end the words God, good, truth, liberation, freedom, Self turn out to be
the ultimate happiness.
And every one is seeking this Good, Happiness, Liberation,Truth, God, Self.
There isn’t anyone who’s not seeking It.
The only difference between us and others is that we’re consciously seeking It
in the direction where It is.
The others are seeking It blindly through seeking happiness in the world and never really getting
the full happiness that they’re striving for.
We go after it directly.
We seek for it where it is. We seek it within.
Everyone wants a continuous, constant, eternal happiness with no sorrow whatsoever,
and no one is ever satisfied until he or she finds that.
Everyone is seeking what we’re all seeking, the major difference being that they are seeking It
in the world and are frustrated, while we are seeking It within and are successfully
becoming happier.
When we go within we discover that all happiness is there.
The only place where we can feel happiness is right within ourselves.
That is exactly where it is.
Every time we attribute this happiness to something external, to a person or a thing external,
we get more pain with it than we do pleasure.
Anyone disagree with that?
If you have experienced enough, if you’ve lived long enough, and if you’ve examined it,
you’ve discovered this.
The happiness that we’re seeking and thinking is out there external to us, isn’t there.
The “happiness with no sorrow” can only be found by going within.
Point number one.
Now point number two is that this great Happiness that we’re seeking is nothing but our very
own Self I our very own beingness.
Our most basic inherent nature is this thing that we are seeking and is ours, here and now.
We are that happiness that we are seeking, looking for it externally and not finding it there.
Looking within, we discover it to be our very own Self unencumbered with
our self-imposed limitations.
There is not one of us who is not in direct touch with, in possession of, an infinite Beingness
that’s all perfect, all present, all joyous and eternal.
There is not one of us who is not in direct contact with That right now!
But due to wrong learning, by assuming, over the ages, concepts of limitation, by looking outwardly,
we have beclouded the view.
We have covered over this infinite Being that we are with concepts of “I am this physical body,”
“I am this mind.” “With this physical body and mind I have heaps and heaps of
problems and troubles.”
So, in order to discover this truth, this unlimited Being that we are, we must quiet the mind,
and finally let go of the mind.
And only in this way may we achieve it.

(This is a part of the book Keys to the Ultimate Freedom by Lester Levenson)