we've been programmed to believe that happiness is an island we have to swim to

that if we don't get there if we don't reach that perfect house the dream job the right

relationship will never be happy this was what I believed for half of my life,

always trying to swim towards something. And then if I got there, then I would be happy. Right. That's what I believed.

And I swam for many, many years to this kind of mirage island.

And I never got there.

I feel like I drowned halfway.

I feel like I saw an island because that was what was sold to me.

And I just kept swimming.

And it never got closer.

And then eventually got tired and I drowned.

Then I realized that my rebirth, in my rebirth, that happiness doesn't live on an island,

that happiness is a state we can produce. And this is what I think is life-changing.

That happiness isn't a destination or isn't tied to something that you get,

that it's actually a state, right?

Think about that.

That happiness is actually a state.

It's a state of being.

It's a state of being. It's, it's, um, it's practiced through,

well, a lot of things, but it's a frequency you live on, you know, and I don't think it, it is a

light switch in that once you're in that state, you are always there. Of course, you know,

life happens. We fluctuate. We get into our heads.

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