Happy today?

I started thinking about why we would want to understand that each day, each moment, is new. There is the "time and space is an illusion" physics piece to that, however more importantly, there is the way we can feel about ourselves and our lives that seems the most important as humans. We can feel happy.

Several years ago I was on a distribution list for a website that I cannot remember right now. It was a positive feel good kind of site. Every day I would get an inspiring message to my email inbox, sort of like getting a fortune cookie without the cookie. One day I read something like this, "Paradise is where love dwells." They took that quote from Jean Paul F. Richter who wrote, "Paradise is always where love dwells". I liked that quote and thought it over for a few minutes. Hhhmmm...Yes, I could see that Paradise is where love dwells, certainly. Being in a place in which love dwells would be Paradise. Well, wait a second...IF Paradise is where love always dwells, then, if love always dwells within me and around me...if I am always dwelling in love, then indeed I will always be in Paradise! Immediately I saw a picture in my mind of Pig Pen from the Peanuts cartoons. I wanted to be like him in that I wanted to always have love around me so, like Pig-Pen, I would always be in my cloud. Mine just happened to be a cloud of love. It just made total sense! If I am always walking around in my circle of love vibration, then anywhere and everywhere I went I would be in Paradise.
And I liked it,  dwelling in love and  having so much time in Paradise! That doesn't mean I don't forget sometimes...because I certainly do. Taking that quote, really understanding how it could apply to my life, and using a little Peg-Pen magic, offered me an opportunity to make each moment what I wanted it to be...Paradise. If I was bogged down with limited thinking, I would have never seen beyond the quote. Heck, I may not have even signed up on the website to get those happy inspiring daily quotes. I guess I could say that no matter what, somewhere in me I wanted a life that felt happy. I wanted my interactions with others to feel happy. I just wanted to be happy!
So, perhaps the bottom line to expanding and following a path of authentic unfolding is because we essentially know that we can and want to experience happiness.
Let's just sit with that possibility for now. The possibility that we desire and innately strive for a life of happiness as well as the possibility that a life of happiness can be received.
Thanks, Pig-Pen! Clouds of  love are keeping me in Paradise and I am feeling the HAPPY! And that is what I choose to take into my next moment, and my brand new day!