“True happiness needs no reason — the moment it depends on anything outside you, it turns into misery.”

We are taught to believe that happiness must have a cause; that it depends on something outside ourselves. A person, an achievement, a possession, a holiday, a moment that goes the way we want it to. So we spend our lives chasing conditions, arranging circumstances, and trying to control outcomes, believing that joy lies just beyond the next accomplishment or acquisition.

But when happiness depends on something external, it becomes fragile, bound to the constant change of the world. The moment we gain what we wanted, fear arises: what if I lose it? And when we inevitably do, the mind begins searching again for a new source of satisfaction.

This endless pursuit is not happiness. Dependence on anything transient is misery, because everything transient must eventually change.

True happiness does not need a reason. It is entirely independent from external factors and it arises naturally when the mind is still and attention returns to the Self. It is always here, waiting to be noticed beneath the noise of wanting.

When you stop demanding that life fulfil your conditions, joy begins to flow on its own. It is not caused by pleasure, success, acquisition or praise. It is revealed when all thoughts have been ignored and one remains in the simple awareness of being.

How do we learn to ignore our thoughts and not identify ourselves with them and be happy and at peace?

Practice and surrender.

Substack Post

https://mounawellness.substack.com/p/happiness-without-a-cause?r=6fpk08