68. The happines of self

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Through our awareness, we become conscious that a space and time have been designated for us as well, where and when we are to find our happiness, together with those people who have been placed alongside us by the One and Only. There is no second chance. At the end of the path, we must account for the grace, love, time, talents, and sacred responsibilities entrusted to us, including the other person. This could be our family, for example, who we have received in order to experience the joy of returning. Our happiness is the renunciation of the individual self, which also means that there is no individual happiness—only the universal happiness lived within the One’s community, because here space and time unite, and the vertical and horizontal planes of the cross meet. Only we are capable of finding the home of existence in the home of life. The understanding of happiness is only possible through the experience, intuition, attunement, recognition, and hearing of this universal consciousness. Happiness, like the returning, becomes more perfect as a person becomes increasingly able to empty themselves of unnecessary earthly things (materiality), and if they are able to humbly accept the gifts sent to them. 

We also know that we need not do anything for our happiness, because happiness cannot be acquired—it has been given to us by the One through the universal self since forever. This means that we must free ourselves from the excesses that we call illusion, the separation from historical reality. We do not need to acquire anything; on the contrary, we must free ourselves from attachments. It is difficult to free ourselves from the concepts, illusions, attachments, false notions, ideologies, religions, and worldviews because these are labels, markers, compliance norms, and rules that humans tend to identify with. For example, today it is fashionable to be successful. “If you are successful, you are happy,” one might hear. The truly successful, the spiritually successful, are those who have awakened to the eternal reality of the One, those who are able to replace their individual self with the universal self. Our happiness has no cause because it exists inherently and needs not be achieved. 

It is not tied to our person or to any object—such as a car or a house—because that would signify an attachment. Its only purpose is to experience the closeness of the One, the freedom, truth, and order. The recognition and realization of the One is a continuous inward journey, the goal of which is to know ourselves and, thereby, to know the One. However, for this inner journey to be possible, the external conditions must be met, such as good health, mental strength, order, enthusiasm for life, serenity, the fulfilment of human relationships, creative freedom, and balance. Spiritual success is the miracle of the One unfolding within us. To realize that, wherever we go and whatever we perceive, we are in contact with the creation of the One. We see this in the shining eyes of our child, in a blooming flower, in the smile of a girl, in the warm of the sunlight or the coolness of the night. Each person must individually walk their own path and carry out the tasks entrusted to them. Substitution is not possible. 

The following can be said about the happiness carried by the universal self:

a) Happiness is not something to wait for, but something to be in. Happiness is the result of walking the path of returning and reaching our destination. We do not need to plan but to execute the returning plan given to us by the One, which is nothing other than always being in the present moment, in the NOW, when every moment serves our returning. The moment should be lived as if we were in heaven. This is the time travel between life and being, the ecstasy. Those who can manage to be in the NOW see both the present (the time) and the future (the space). The future is not in time, but in space. There is one unique future, and this is timelessness. It is important that everyone experiences many such moments beyond time, and if one succeeds, they should teach others to glimpse into timelessness.

b) We are the object of happiness. The question is, what is a happy person like? Only the true, noble, creative, redeeming, and striving person—those who fulfil the task given to them by the One, who carry out the program and return to the One—are happy. The prodigal son was a happy person, and we are all prodigal sons. Each person acquires their happiness for themselves, or comes to realize that happiness exists even without them, just as love exists, even if it is not accepted.

c) Happiness is closely connected with fulfilling our vocation, with creation (both material and spiritual), with striving (taking on extra burdens), with redemption (putting things in order), and with resurrection (returning), because we do all these not for ourselves, but out of love and sacrifice, for others. This is selflessness.

d) Happiness is spiritual and eternal, as it is the fulfilment of longing for returning, to be part of shared state of being with the One before man moved from space (being) into time (life). In religion, this is the Paradise. Therefore, happiness is found by those who seek their being in their life. Anything beyond this is false happiness, deception, and thus a lie. It is not worth speaking of bodily, quantitative, rational, or emotional happiness.