Find Serenity With The Three 'h' Words

The 'H' words for serenity are: happy, humble, humility, harmony, and helpfulness. Of the five, only two- harmony and helpfulness can be achieved through volition. The other ones must come naturally either through a sudden divine blessing or as a gradual result from the practice of virtue. The latter is much more common amongst us earthlings however.

Of the five, 'happy' is undoubtedly the most coveted and most elusive. Everybody, it would seem, wants to be happy. Nobody, likewise seemingly, wants to be unhappy. But all kinds of people persist in the kind of behavior that ensures them the opposite of what they want. In fairness, there seems to be overwhelmingly great flood of confusion surrounding happiness, and people spend trillions of dollars and half of their waking lives trying to achieve it. But maybe happiness can never be an achievement. Maybe the more you work for it the more it will elude you. Just maybe to have happiness what you really need to do is accept unhappiness and have gratitude that at least you have life. That is to say, you cannot possibly be happy if you are not humble.

But you cannot buy or work for humility either, so the whole question of achieving happiness in this life is a Pandora's Box it would seem. After all, to become humble means first realizing that you're not, that actually you're prideful or arrogant. But it takes humility to recognize that, so how does one get around that? Maybe it can happen through quiet moments of insight, and also maybe through a bit of swallowing the bitter pills of one's ego.

But all this is certainly not impossible or as hard as it seems. All we're asking for is serenity - simply peace of mind. And that is not arrogant at all. So if harmony and helpfulness are achievable just like stomach crunches, maybe one can start there.

By: Dinah Jackson

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