Sunday, June 09, 2002
Happiness Happens
Luke Barber, a correspondent in the DeepFUN discussion group, writes:
Being a person on the path that has sought to find the path that leads to the playful path, one might think that I would be able to offer some answer to this interesting query.
However, I must admit to total confusion about things making sense when it comes to trying to figure where paths lead, whether they might could all lead the same place, and whether that place might be a "place" called "happiness." That's way too much to try to figure out.
I used to say that trying to define happiness is a little like trying to nail jello to a barn door. Trying to find happiness, meaning, or any of those other fine ends in life is like trying to nail the barn to the jello. I did figure on this stuff for a long while, however. I figered. . . I figered. . . I figered. . . and I figered . . . and I just couldn't figure it out. So, I gave up figuring about what I was seeking or where my path might or should lead. And, in surrendering the figuring it was almost as if the "answer" was -- in a sense --revealed to me. Simple: Stop trying to figure life out and just love life. Which means love deeply and love play. However, not just to seek it, rather to BE it.
I know it has been said "seek and ye shall find;" however, I think that "find and ye shall find" is a whole lot more dependable. Play is found in the present moment. When we seek laughter, fun, and play in our lives we can become a little like a desperate loved. Better not to seek, but to find play right where it is. Like right now. I am just playing with this response to Bernie's question all the while knowing that if I actually KNEW what I was talking about I would be struck dumb immediately. However, it has been DeeplyFun trying to answer you, Bernie.
Peace, Luke
Bernie poetically replies:
Happiness happens.
Like rain happens. And the tide happens.
Happiness is a season and a reason for being that has little to do with you or me or my thoughts or your thoughts or anything we can do about them.
And the only way we have to find happiness requires us to be there when it happens. Fully present and at our best.
The more playful we are, the more likely it is that we're present enough to recoginize happiness. The more fun we have the more likely that we'll embrace happiness. The more profoundly playul, the more deeply fun, the more likely we are to be fully there, fully at our best, so happiness can happen to us.
Luke Barber, a correspondent in the DeepFUN discussion group, writes:
Being a person on the path that has sought to find the path that leads to the playful path, one might think that I would be able to offer some answer to this interesting query.
However, I must admit to total confusion about things making sense when it comes to trying to figure where paths lead, whether they might could all lead the same place, and whether that place might be a "place" called "happiness." That's way too much to try to figure out.
I used to say that trying to define happiness is a little like trying to nail jello to a barn door. Trying to find happiness, meaning, or any of those other fine ends in life is like trying to nail the barn to the jello. I did figure on this stuff for a long while, however. I figered. . . I figered. . . I figered. . . and I figered . . . and I just couldn't figure it out. So, I gave up figuring about what I was seeking or where my path might or should lead. And, in surrendering the figuring it was almost as if the "answer" was -- in a sense --revealed to me. Simple: Stop trying to figure life out and just love life. Which means love deeply and love play. However, not just to seek it, rather to BE it.
I know it has been said "seek and ye shall find;" however, I think that "find and ye shall find" is a whole lot more dependable. Play is found in the present moment. When we seek laughter, fun, and play in our lives we can become a little like a desperate loved. Better not to seek, but to find play right where it is. Like right now. I am just playing with this response to Bernie's question all the while knowing that if I actually KNEW what I was talking about I would be struck dumb immediately. However, it has been DeeplyFun trying to answer you, Bernie.
Peace, Luke
Bernie poetically replies:
Happiness happens.
Like rain happens. And the tide happens.
Happiness is a season and a reason for being that has little to do with you or me or my thoughts or your thoughts or anything we can do about them.
And the only way we have to find happiness requires us to be there when it happens. Fully present and at our best.
The more playful we are, the more likely it is that we're present enough to recoginize happiness. The more fun we have the more likely that we'll embrace happiness. The more profoundly playul, the more deeply fun, the more likely we are to be fully there, fully at our best, so happiness can happen to us.
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