Seeking is the Antithesis of Happiness

Eckhart Tolle is changing my life.   By which I mean – reading his books is changing my perspective.  Which is actually so much more important than any external change in circumstances.  Without a change in perspective we just keep repeating the same patterns in different ways.  A fundamental change in perspective is much more transformative [...]

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The Scary Recognition of Simple Happiness

It’s interesting how the wisdom of words can remain, even when your interpretation of them changes completely. In my last post, I wrote: Perhaps we have to realise that to be happy, we have to not only want to be happy – we have to be able to accept that happiness when it comes along, [...]

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I Am – And It Is Good

So last year was about acceptance – accepting myself as I am and being true to my own self, rather than needing to live up to some external expectations (or my perception of what those external expectations may be). And this year has built on that theme, but also introduced the idea of what I [...]

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No More Quest!

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. ~ Martin Luther King Jr For years, I had a blog called “Emily’s Quest”.  I decided that the title of that blog, which has summed up my entire approach to life so far, epitomises exactly why [...]

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Happiness and the Holes Within

Recently, in my random web browsing, I came across this article by Steven Stosny called Marriage and the Power to be Happy.  Although ostensibly about marriage, I think there are some really important ideas in this article not just about relationships in general but also about the way we all tend to approach life.  For one thing, I [...]

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Waiting It Out

Would you want me when I’m not myself? Wait it out while I am someone else… – John Mayer Have you ever just woken up grumpy?  For no apparent reason whatsoever?  It’s a gorgeous sunny day and nothing about your life situation has changed since yesterday, when everything was fine, and somehow you just have [...]

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