I can not count the number of people (sometimes myself included) who really believe that being financially successful is the solution to their happiness.
Every day I see people laboring and laboring over creating more wealth as if that new car, or new house, or dream vacation is going to fulfill the deepest parts of their true being.
Have many of us really looked at the deepest part of our true being$%: Have we really investigated what TRULY fulfills us$%: Or are we completely enamored with a frame of mind that constantly seeks pleasure and avoids pain, yet never achieving either for any long duration of time$%:
The only thing that will ever make you truly satisfied....is being. That's right....Being.
When you no longer have wants and desires to be fulfilled, when you no longer have a million thoughts and fantasies running through your head, when you no longer need to "be better"....you will finally just be.
You will be what you already are. And at your deepest self you already are perfect.
When you no longer struggle for some greater experience but are completely satisfied with whatever the moment gives you....you will be happy.
When you no longer demand things from the moment and your self in order to be more happy....you will be happy.
When you no longer identify who you are with all the transitory events, ideas, thoughts, feelings, experiences, and memories....you will see that you are what makes all that possible.
There is a source of all of existence, all of the universe, and all of life. It comes from something unknown. And that source is the same source that gives you life....it is the real you at the deepest level. All else is just illusion.
When you see illusions as illusions, and your truest self as all that is real....you will be in a place that is beyond happiness. You will be in a place of wholeness, and oneness, that nothing could ever take away from you.