Happiness Within
The Lanzarote Sessions - Series 12 Session 5
THE MESSAGE
Transcribed on 7th December 2025 @3:00pm
Hello. I want to talk to you about the power of happiness within.
Many people, including myself once upon a time, spend our lives comparing ourself with others. Often wishing we could have the lifestyle of someone we envied. Or we yearned to have been born with their looks, their ambition, and sometimes even their choice of partner. We see their lives as somehow better than our own. What have they done so differently, yet so much more to show for it than us?
Comparing our lot to that of others is common amongst all humans. People do so because they have confused what happiness is. That is, real inner happiness. The happiness that brings with it total peace. This happiness doesn’t come from the pursuit of material wealth, an outstanding career, financial success, or a glamorous lifestyle. No, these are just jackets that cover the real person hidden behind the material.
They may well have found a happiness and are happy throughout. That is something that cannot be viewed by others, such as us looking on with green eyes. Happiness is not something we can acquire. It is something we grow into. Happiness comes from appreciating, accepting, and being whole-heartedly satisfied that we have a unique life, each of us. Happiness doesn’t come from yearning, desiring or seeking choices that don’t or wont enrichen our inner self.
Happiness is knowing who you are and how much you have to be grateful for. Happiness is appreciation. Happiness starts with a decision. “I am the me I am” Growing closer and more connected to my truest self, my higher self, my creator. Happiness is seeing the beauty in nature and the love in others, no matter who they are.
Happiness, as I said, brings with it peace and contentment. There is no place for remorse, jealousy, pity, or greed. They destroy the true happiness and tint the image we have of the world.
Ask yourself this day, what have you to be happy about? You’ll discover so much you’d forgotten, or allowed to slip in importance. Your life is a work you created. Your life has been spent creating this version of you. And there is no doubt more to be achieved.
It is never too late to be happy within, to decide to be happy within. Now is a good moment to realise your happiness, and welcome it back to the focus of your mind. Life is great. Your life is great. You have achieved so much and yet so much more that could be achieved to recognise the true self, where happiness and peace resides.
Compare not yea with others, for thine is the power and the glory of all that exists.
That is all I have to say. Be happy and peace will be within you.
Goodbye.
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