Happiness is not the house, the car, the coat, or whatever. Happiness is being in the space you are in at any point in time and thoroughly permitting yourself to be one with what is going on. You have a statement in your world that says, “Take time to smell the flowers.” It is true. You are in a world of escalated energies and all of you have the feeling of what you call the “rat race.” Take time to be. It is most important.

If things are not as you like them, accept that it is all right for things not to be all right. Do not say, “This misery is going to be mine. It is going to be part of me.” Instead work at being a point of light in that so-called dark situation. Remember that how a situation is judged — good or bad — is very often based on the viewpoint.

Self-Discovery & Manifestation The Meaning of Self-Discovery, pp. 12, 13