the arduous simplicity

"Just be happy. Just make your self happy, that is all you can do"
"That is why I am friendly with every body."

a few words from the right people are of much more value than long talks with the wrong

if i had heard theses words years ago, or perhaps weeks ago, they would have carried another meaning to me. the same from the speaker but different to the listener.

maybe it would have meant for me if happiness was believed to be in traveling, possessing something, etc..

but this morning when I heard him say this, it went directly to the heart.

look for joy, if joy is not there, then look for the misery that is there.

maybe you cant see the cause of the misery. or perhaps cant even see the misery.
  but it is there.loaded in all these taken for granted unquestioned actions we have been conditioned to think are the normal, the natural.
probe into the miseries and begin the dropping of the sources.

it is likely that the once believed crazy ideas you have carried around with you are in fact the ones you must live. these unrealistic ideas are in fact the real. buried in years of rationalizing away.

this is arduous to "just be happy"
 i dont mean it is hard to smile, this is easy. conditioned and practiced.

to be deeply joyful means looking at your actions and questioning their motives.
 this 2 minute conversation with this person, was a reminder of the Real.  

waking you up, again.