Relying on circumstance for our happiness and joy is, obviously, a very dicey thing.
Good situations come and go (and so do bad, thankfully).
If there is, as the yogic sages claim, a happiness and joy that just is independent of circumstance, then that’s for me. I’ll put my efforts in that direction.
Yoga and meditation can guide and train us to look in this direction, to steady and ground ourselves in that–a happiness and joy that just is, as a condition of our being.
For all of us, it takes the consistent and steady effort of practice to find this and to stay with it. But if we can, we know we have found something that is so valuable and dependable.
Where will you look for your happiness and joy?
The Every Day Yogi 