Happiness... impossible or inevitable

[Patrick]

Since the perfect balance for each entity is different for each entity, happiness will be a different thing for each entity as well.

I found it interesting how Q'uo explained this concept. I did not know happiness was related to our balancing.

So when we try to share what happiness is for us we cannot really understand each others. It's not just because we are having difficulty explaining ourselves, it's also because the happiness we are describing may not seem like happiness to our other-self, happiness is rightly something else for them. Sometimes the difference can be enough that the happiness one is describing will seem undesirable to the other.

And yes Q'uo is pointing out that happiness and joy are not necessarily the same thing. In fact, for some it might be quite different.

Those who do achieve a state of bliss, joy, peace, realization or happiness in the sense the Dalai Lama used, achieve this state because they have been able to use the catalyst in such a way that the value of the catalyst is honored, the response of the self is known and honored, and those areas within which the self feels it needs more discipline are addressed...

It seems that regarding the joy of life per se, it is the honoring of the value of catalysts, whether pleasant or unpleasant, that brings that state and not the catalysts themselves.