Exploring Happiness #18- Odyssey Poem by June Stepansky

I wanted a small thing really.
I wanted to be happy.

That was my mistake,
and the beginning
of a terrifying,
exhilarating odyssey
into the very core
of being!



Why is happiness so difficult to achieve?
Before we can be happy, we need to understand ourselves well enough to know what it is that makes us happy. This is a learning process which involves varied life experiences and which all individuals must accomplish for themselves.
Because each of us is so different, what makes one person happy will not be successful for someone else.
Discovering our individual path to happiness is one of life’s great and challenging adventures.


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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne Du Maurier

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier