happiness

Found this piece from the web.   -posting with thanks to the writer. I have been researching happiness for months now, collecting evidence, published studies, and opinions of experts on this subject that is of great interest to me. However, I am putting all of my notes aside in order to share a personal experience of real happiness ~ and how I recently spent 24 hours. This was my son’s idea: with time short and much to do before his family’s departure for Morocco (where they will be living indefinitely), he suggested we plan an overnight in downtown Seattle and create a “family play weekend”. We chose a hotel with festive lights and decorations, the presence of Santa, a swimming pool, a hot tub and two adjoining rooms. There are seven of us altogether, including my son and his wife, their three children, ages 6, 4 and 2, my husband and me. We were a merry group from the outset! We left our “to do” lists at home, our worries behind and caravanned to the Seattle Sheraton Hotel. ...

Found this bequtiful piece from one of OSHO's lectures. "I was reading a few beautiful lines of Michael Adam:  'Perhaps trying even makes for unhappiness.  Perhaps all the din of my desiring has kept the  strange bird from my shoulder.  I have tried so long and so loud after happiness.  I have  looked so far and wide.  I have always imagined that happiness is an island in the river.  Perhaps it is the river.  I have thought happiness to be the name of an inn at the end of the  road.  Perhaps it is the road.  I have believed that happiness was always tomorrow and  tomorrow and tomorrow.  Perhaps it is here. Perhaps it is now.  I have looked everywhere  else. 'So: here and now. ' But here and now is clearly unhappiness.  Perhaps then, no such  thing as happiness.  Perhaps happiness exists not, it is just a dream created by an unhappy  mind.  Certainly it cannot be as I unhap...