Comments on: Happiness https://frangallo.com/happiness/ Yoga by Fran Gallo Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Rick https://frangallo.com/happiness/#comment-865 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:24:05 +0000 http://frangallo.wordpress.com/?p=6034#comment-865 Happiness, for me, is the joy or bliss I experience in the midst of freedom. It’s very difficult to feel happy and not free. They are inextricable. But happiness is fleeting. We cannot feel it all the time or we’d never be able to distinguish it from other feelings. Happiness is like a blue sky in the midst of days of gloom and rain. If it’s sunny every day, then we hardly notice it anymore. My mother and I debated happiness once. She was afflicted with the old fashioned American idea of happiness while I believe happiness is a fleeting sensation amidst many passing sensations. We finally concluded together that “satisfaction” was a more reasonable goal and a more consistent, even permanent, sensation to be achieved.

Rick

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