Away with Words – the Secret of Happiness

Happy vs Unhappy 

Excerpts from “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle     Unhappiness – what is a negative emotion?  An  emotion that is toxic to the body and interferes with its balance and harmonious functioning.  Fear, anxiety, anger, bearing a grudge, sadness, hatred or intense dislike, jealousy, envy – all disrupt the energy flow through the body, affect the heart, the immune system, digestion, production of hormones, and so on.  Even mainstream medicine, although it knows very little about how the ego operates yet, is beginning to recognize the connection between negative emotional states and physical disease.  An emotion that does harm to the body also infects the people you come into contact with and indirectly, through a process of chain reaction, countless others you never meet.  There is a generic term for all negative emotions: unhappiness.

The Secret of Happiness – How to be at peace now?  By making peace with the present moment.  The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens.  It cannot happen anywhere else.  Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you.  There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness:  One With Life.  Being one with life is being one with NOW.  You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you.  Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.