“Everything that humanity has ever created began with a thought. The place where you live, the clothes that you wear, and the paper on which these words are written were once only thoughts in someone’s mind. Your decision to read this, too, began with a thought.
Everything we think is colored by our happiness, or lack thereof. Although individual definitions of happiness vary greatly, we all want to be happy. Early in life, we look for happiness among family, friends, even toys. Later in life, we may look for happiness in religion, money, sex, alcohol, education, marriage … We all know where we have looked. But did we find what we were searching for?
Genuine happiness, or enlightenment, is already within us, we have only to reveal it. As spring water rushes through open earth, so happiness flows through open lives. The question is how to open our lives to this inherent joy. Openness manifests happiness.”
Open Your Mind, Open Your Life – A Little Book Of Eastern Wisdom, Taro Gold, Introduction.