Can happiness be this simple?

“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” ~ Iris Murdoch

There are a couple of ironies to this statement. First is of being busy. In our culture we have exchanged busyness for fulfilment. There is a tendency to brag about being too busy with ‘important’ things to even have time for ourself. We forego the pleasurable activities and pursuits that enable us to develop our inherent talents into skills and life work. They are pleasurable because as we learn and grow bring we something unknown and desirable into the world, as did author Iris Murdoch.

Secondly we become unconcerned with self as in ‘self-conscious’ in its obstructive definition when we fully express our unique self-ness. It is diving into the depth of self and revealing that singular beauty without reservation that we know the truth of our selflessness within the whole of Life. In this unconcern we embrace every day with wonder and liveliness and the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Happiness can be this simple.

Me agapi,

Marilyn

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About the Author: marilyn

Marilyn Harding is the author of "Exhilarated Life - Discovering Inner Happiness" and "Yesterday at Justin's". Contributor to The Huffington Post, U.S. and Greece, and Thrive Global. Marilyn and her mate Athan presently live in Greece on the Island of Aegina, with roots in Canada. Devoted to the life path of personal mastery, Marilyn lives in the spirit of holism and conducts her life with the goal to augment vibrant and open hearted access to living a superlative life in creativity, wellness, spirituality, productivity, and accountability as citizens of the world no matter what our role.