The Key to Lasting Happiness
A woman wants to know how she can find lasting happiness when her happiness is so easily disturbed by what she sees going on in the world.
Rupert says: ‘The causeless happiness you speak of is not a feeling that rises up without a cause – it is your nature. It’s not a feeling that comes and goes, it’s the ever-present nature of being. It can be more or less obscured by our thoughts and feelings, just like in a thunderstorm, when dark clouds obscure the blue sky – but it’s always there.
‘The mistake we make is to think that a patch of blue sky is a blue cloud amongst the grey clouds. That’s not the way it is. This is the common understanding of happiness – that happiness is just an emotion that fluctuates with suffering. But happiness is not an emotion; it’s the background of all emotions. It’s always there. It’s you. It’s your nature.’
*This video is from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats at Mercy Center, 10–17 March 2024. For more information on upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:
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Timestamps:
0:00 Lasting Happiness
1:37 Can Happiness Be Causeless?
2:49 Happiness Is Not a Feeling
4:13 Happiness Is Your Nature
5:21 The Blue Sky of Happiness
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