Audrey Melissa: Happiness

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Happiness

I was browsing through some bumper stickers on facebook and I happened to run across a quote by Bob Dylan. NOT the usual person I would quote, but it caused my mind to contemplate what he really meant and what I drew from it. It said, "Behind every beautiful thing, there is some kind of pain."

Everyone has pain. Everyone has some sort of trial in their life that causes some kind of pain. That's the fact of life. The ability to cope with this reflects our happiness or our "beauty." Sometimes it's easy to perceive a happy, beautiful person and long to be like them, but it's fact that they have some kind of pain. The reason they are beautiful and happy is because they were able to think positive and move forward.

Being able to progress amidst the trials of life makes us beautiful and happy.