Happy?!!!

Happiness is like a nightlight in each of us, a nightlight that bring us comfort and faith with all the patience we request. Happiness is like a small flame inside our heart that won't go away, but that is good to revive once in a while. It's a flame we need to protect from the winds, from the storms, from sad moments or from the rains of despair. A small flame that we are responsible for, to protect it from ill-will, from negative thoughts, from the poison of resentment, from the restlessness of out habits.

Happiness is our greatest desire, yet it always is our greatest fear because happiness is in abandonment, the abandonment of oneself to someone else.

Where is your happiness?!!

On life and water

There is an old saying in Taoism that says "Rocks are hard and unyielding, the river flows around them and forgets".
In each of our lives, there are rocks. Like the water from the river, we encounter them not because we want to, but because it's nature. We splash violently against them, they break us, they change the course of our flow. But like the river, we find the path of least resistance and keep flowing downstream by going around them. Like the river, we find an "out" and what was a break in our flow only becomes a new direction for our life. Where the rock held us hostage for a while, we manage to free ourselves and move on.
Become the river.