為什麼只有不快樂的人才尋求幸福？

你永遠不會「快樂」,直到……

只有不快樂的人才會去尋求幸福。
而他們所找到的幸福只是暫時的、有條件的，
取決於外境事物的「某種特定模式」。

當情況轉變，當事情不順遂，
當簡訊沒人回，分數低於預期，
錯失良機，或夢想破滅時，
很快又會回到不快樂的狀態。

不要去尋求某種幸福，
要去尋求幸福的源頭本身。

或者說，去找出你真正的樣子。

去認識你自己。

不是說這樣你就再也找不到幸福。
而是你對「幸福」的定義將徹底轉變！
這個詞對你來說會代表完全不同的東西。

當你以生命的本質來認識自己，
當你去觸摸生命,
祂帶來的是脈搏，悸動，和電力，
當你把自己交給生命，
並與每一個鮮活的日子變得親密，
當你張開雙臂
迎接那即將來臨的，
祝福那些離去的，
你會體驗到更深的滿足感。
甚至超越有限思維裡的「幸福快樂」。

你會在當下發現深深的安全感。
與此地和此刻有深刻的連結感。
你會有一顆無論向歡喜，憤怒，哀傷，狂喜..
都能敞開的心。
你會被一朵雲、一葉草、
甚至是一個朋友的笑容
感動到流淚。

你會因為感恩在這個地球上的日子
而雙膝跪親吻土地。

你不會追求名利，
甚至不會追求暫時的高點。
你也不會尋求靈性體驗。

或者說，當這些東西到來時，
你會享受這些東西，
當他們不可避免地離開時，
你會祝福他們。

你不想要幸福，
你想要神性。
如果你不喜歡神這個詞，
那就放下它。

你不是想要幸福，
你想要生命本身的脈動衝擊
再次從你的血脈中飛升震動。

如果那不是幸福，我不知道什麼是幸福。

一個寬廣而慷慨的幸福，
足以容納自己的相反面向。

這是一種即使當你悲傷時，
仍深愛著你的幸褔。

這是一種
永遠不會離你而去的幸福。

YOU’LL NEVER BE “HAPPY”, UNTIL…

Only an unhappy person seeks happiness.

And the happiness they find is only temporary, contingent, dependent on outer circumstances, on things going a “certain way”. How quickly they become unhappy again, when circumstances change, when things don’t go their way, when a text isn’t returned, or a score is lower than expected, or an opportunity is lost, or a dream shatters.

Don’t seek a contingent happiness, seek the source of happiness itself.

Or rather, find out who you really are.

Know yourself.

It’s not that you’ll never find happiness again.

It’s that your very definition of happiness will transform completely.

The word will mean something totally different to you.

When you know yourself as life, when you touch life, its throb and pulse and electricity, when you give yourself to life and become intimate with the living day, when you open your arms to what comes and bless what leaves, you’ll find a deeper contentment, beyond limited notions of “happiness”.

You’ll find a deep sense of safety in the present moment. A profound connection with the here and now. A heart open to joy and to sorrow, grief and ecstasy. You’ll be moved to tears by a cloud, a blade of grass, the smile of a friend.

You’ll fall to the ground in gratitude for a single day on this earth.

You won’t seek fame or fortune, or even temporary highs. You won’t seek spiritual experiences.

Or rather, you’ll enjoy these things when they come, and you’ll bless them when they inevitably leave.

You don’t want happiness you want God. And if you don’t like the word God then drop it and be done with it.

You don’t want happiness you want the throb and pulse and erotic shock of life itself soaring through your veins once again.

And if that isn’t happiness I don’t know what is.

A happiness large and generous enough to contain its own opposite.

A happiness that loves you as you grieve.

A happiness that never leaves.

– Jeff Foster