#525 Stop Chasing Happiness: It's Already Here
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Stop Chasing Happiness: It's Already Here
Ever feel like you're constantly chasing happiness, only to find it slipping away? In this episode, we'll explore the idea that happiness isn't something we have to work towards, but rather our natural state – a state we often lose sight of when we look outside ourselves for fulfillment.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness Podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I want to start today by sharing a couple |
| 0:12.6 | whimsical stories that have a lot of wisdom in them. I was visiting the Hawaii |
| 0:17.7 | Islands this past December, and while I was there, I was told how |
| 0:21.9 | there was a group of turtles that were coming to land every night, resting, from a very long journey. |
| 0:27.8 | Well, because they were protecting them, you couldn't get very close to the turtles, but I had |
| 0:32.4 | to walk along the beach to get back to my car, and while I was walking back, magically, there |
| 0:37.0 | was a sole turtle, a green turtle, |
| 0:39.3 | a beautiful turtle lying on the beach. It was truly magical. But then something very magical |
| 0:46.9 | happened. The turtle started speaking to me. And it was so exhausted, but it asked me if I could help it. And I said, what? Well, how can I help you? |
| 0:58.5 | It said it's been looking for thousands of miles trying to find something, but it couldn't find it, |
| 1:04.5 | and I wanted to know if I could help it find it. Of course, this majestic sea turtle, I would have done |
| 1:09.5 | anything to help it. |
| 1:13.9 | So I said, how can I help you? What are you looking for? |
| 1:19.1 | And it took a deep breath and said, I'm looking for water. |
| 1:24.5 | And I looked at this beautiful sea turtle's eyes lovingly and said, |
| 1:30.7 | The ocean is all around you and everywhere you go in the ocean is water. |
| 1:38.3 | And then another time, I was up in the Himalaya Mountains, visiting a beautiful, very old, |
| 1:45.0 | very majestic monastery. And the monks were there seeking enlightenment, seeking peace. But they had a side corridor that I went down, and down that corridor I saw a very old cat. |
| 1:53.0 | He could tell that he was wise, and he was trying to help the young kittens and the other cats there, seek enlightenment too. |
| 2:00.0 | Well, one kitten was asking the |
| 2:02.6 | master, the master cat, how do I find enlightenment? People told me, if I catch my tail, |
| 2:10.5 | I'll be enlightened, but when I chase it, I can't catch it. It keeps getting away. |
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