Do you want to fast track to a happier life? Want to join the ranks the ranks of the enlightened? How would you enjoy living in the land of pure white clouds and days filled with sun shine? Waking up every day knowing that all is well with the world, and of course all is well with you? I sound like a snake oil salesman don’t I? Living that kind of life is really pretty simple. You probably have the memo filed away somewhere on how to get there.

Have you ever thought about what you are doing with your life now? I mean really examining what you are doing with your life. Taking a microscope and inspecting every thought and interaction from the time you wake until the time you go to sleep? It is hard at first, but so is everything else when you do it the first few times.

Examine yourself, your thoughts and your motives for a few weeks to a month. You probably will have a pretty good idea where you have taken your life; how far you are from the good life; where every day is a huge helping of happiness and sunshine.

It is quite possible you do not know where your life fits on the scale from miserable to enlightened? It is quite possible many people do not know where their life fits in. Well, not knowing is not really the correct phrase, perhaps forgetting, or choosing not to remember is a better choice.

That is okay, because if you really have been looking at your life and what you were thinking each moment of the day, you probably have an inkling of some areas that need some changing and shaping up. I have some news for you that may be troubling for you at first. Following the Golden Rule or having something like it in place and trying really hard every day to follow it is not going get you where you really want to go.

You have to go beyond following some simple rule. Simple acceptance is the key point you are missing. You have to change your thinking until everything in the world is perfect just as it is. This acknowledgment is the key to the whole process. Until you can see, read, or hear of any situation and intrinsically or internally know that you are what you see, hear, or read, is as it ought to be, you will continue to struggle.

Knowing everything is perfect, and you are part of everything, no matter how wrong, disgusting, violent, or perverted it may be, is the path to joining the enlightened. A happier life is much more than flowers and soap bubbles on a warm June day. When you acquiesce*, you will begin to look into the valley and know you have arrived.

Good luck on your quest, I hope you get there.

*accept something reluctantly but without protest – I have no idea where this word came from….