Is happiness an expression of some personal truth ?
That is exactly right. And you expressed it so well! But I warn you not to make a mistake that I made, and that is to rely on it as a barometer of the rightness of your decisions. Happines is a fickle emotion – sometimes, even when you are on the right track, you will find yourself sad and depressed, and then you panic, thinking you”re doing something wrong. It’s not true. It’s because you got the assignment you didn’t want, you’re hungry and cold, your daughter snapped at you, or you offended your boss by accident. All of these things can undermine your spiritual connection a lot when you don’t make an active effort to separate them from your internal life. Then, you will find that you are internally strong and can face the world outside with the guidance of your soul. Then you will experience joy, “which is to happiness what the sun is to an electric bulb”. Even when you are depressed and feel that you have failed, if you have joy, you can rebuild yourself.
