Bliss comes from within

Many years ago, someone said to me … “bliss comes from within, you don’t need to extract it externally from people or materials”.

You may want to ask … really?

Let me put it this way … most of us (apart from the unfortunate ones) have the ability to delve into three very important domains of life … memory, consciousness and imagination. As an intelligent human with this ability … we can generate various non-physical conditions of simple happiness within these three domains of life … we don’t need anything external do that.

External physical things are most likely accessories to provide us with certain convenience and comfortability for our modern livelihood.

Unlike comfort and convenience which are very much brought upon by physical things, simple happiness can come in a non-physical form. Not sure if you will agree with me but the way I see it … how happy you are, is not created by how big your house is, how luxury your holidays are, how fast your car can go, how much wealth you accumulated or how many people you have around you.

Hey, don’t get me wrong … you can indulge in external physical things from people or materials to bring pleasures of convenience, comfort and luxury to “enhance” your lifestyle … there is nothing wrong with it. You built your financial stability and wealth … you have every right to derive pleasures from your success.

My point here is … enjoying a happy life doesn’t have to take a lot … really, you just live with the simple happiness coming from within you … the non-physical things that you can derive from your memories, your awareness, your imagination … like healthiness, knowledge, understanding, peace of mind, nostalgia, reminiscence, sentimentality, patience, tolerance, bliss, warmth, satisfaction, contentment, delight, gratification, affection, compassion, cheerfulness, calmness, empathy, sympathy, easiness, simplicity and a lot more.

So really, simple happiness is already within you all the time, doesn’t matter where you are … whether alone in the jungle, at home with your loved ones or on a crowded street.

But if you are only happy when you extract pleasures externally from people or materials, then maybe you are just enjoying the pleasures from the convenience, comfort and luxury. Maybe you are just enjoying the accessories of life