Deep happiness and joy are not for lightweights

Challenges and difficulties in varying degrees come and go in everyone’s lives.

Happiness and joy are often short-shrifted as lightweight, not angsty enough, as not serious, as treating life lightly.

True deep happiness and joy that offer limitless compassion is not easily earned. It takes discipline, determination, and strength as well as grace to arrive at and maintain this equanimity.

Yoga and meditation are practical paths to such happiness and joy. When practiced with earnest yearning and discipline, they can certainly lessen our suffering and increase our joy and improve the quality of our lives and those around us.

Deep joy and happiness are not for lightweights!