"I take it, not only one day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you'll always be happy, because it's always now."
-- Willie Nelson
Old Willie knows about alot more than just Whiskey River, golf, and Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. He knows about life. Specifically he knows that the only life you have is right here, right now. Everything else, i.e., past and future, is pure fantasy. He also knows that being happy in this moment is the best way to assure that you'll be happy in the next moment. No hurry, no worry, just moment-to-moment happiness. Quite a life.
Today, no matter where your today takes you, is the perfect day to practice the art of momentary happiness. You may start by looking at what you're happy about right now. You have a place to live, you have enough food to eat, you have friends -- on an on a million and one reasons to be happy. But ultimately happiness doesn't depend upon having, or even doing, but rather upon Being. The real discipline of happiness is to BE happy, regardless of what you do or do not have, regardless of what you can or cannot do. Unreasonable happiness is true happiness.
Everytime that you are unreasonably happy, you strengthen your happiness muscle, you nourish your spiritual core, and you make your soul come alive and dance! Each moment of happiness adds to the momentum that propels you towards another moment of happiness, on and on, a daisy chain of happiness, happy moments woven together into the texture of a damn fine life.
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