Instead of pursuing happiness, it is better to make BLISS your target.

Why? Because happiness fluctuates while bliss doesn't.

The key to get bliss is to understand mind. And it is not an easy thing to do. It takes time. It takes persistence. It takes determination. But it is possible.

Happiness depends on circumstances while bliss doesn't. Bliss comes when you know that the world is simply a creation of your mind.

What is mind?

Mind is not you. You have it. For most people, however, it owns them. That is a problem.

The key is to understand mind and use it effectively.

Happiness and unhappiness are the opposite sides of the same coin. You cannot be happy all the time and you cannot be unhappy all the time either.

The reason is the fact that your happiness depends on something outside such as environments, circumstances, and conditions. To go beyond happiness and to feel good all the time, you need to focus on something within, something inside. Because outside conditions necessarily can be controlled by you all the time. 

Everybody wants to be happy. Happiness is something all of us strive for.

What is happiness by the way?  It is not easy to explain by words but we all know when we are happy.

Most people use the word as synonym of pleasantness. If it is the case for you, you may want to rethink a little bit. 

Now, here is the mechanism. You are the boss of your mind. And you can order your mind what to think, when to think, how to think. Once you control your thoughts, you control your feelings because your feelings are created by your thoughts.

Isn't it great if you can control your feelings all the time? Isn't it great if you feel 'peace' all the time?

There are thoughts and feelings within us. Here is a question. Where do they come from? It seems they just happen to us and we don't know their origin. Most of the time, they are triggered by stimuli outside. And that's what's happening to most of us. However, external stimuli are not the origin of thoughts and feelings. They are just triggers. The origin exists somewhere else.

"We live in two worlds, inner world and outer world at the same time", said John Kehoe. In our inner world, there are thoughts and feelings. In our outer world, there are circumstances, environments, and conditions.

I read a book long time ago in which the author wrote the sentence, 'There is no world outside'. I don't remember the title nor the author's name of the book. But the sentence has been stuck with me since then up until now. 

Then finally, I feel I have deciphered the meaning of the sentence.

Mind is not a thing but activities. And you are not your mind just same as you are not your body. So, what are you? This is a tough question to be answered.

"Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes." - James Allen

Once we get the truth that the ultimate cause of our results is always ourselves specifically our mind, things get much simpler. Here is how it works. Your mind is the cause of your actions. And your actions are the cause of your results. So, it is better to know more about what mind is.