Mystery
"Nobody, not mom or dad or
grandmother or grandfather, or big sister or big brother or teachers or doctors
or soldiers or reverends or athletes or lawyers or TV stars, or any people who are
working, or any people who are playing, not even the President, not even a king
or a queen, not even people who love each other… know what a single thing is.
It is a great and wonderful mystery to all of us that anything is or that we
are.
And whether somebody says I don't
know how anything came to be or God made everything." They are simply
pointing to feeling of the mystery- of how everything is but nobody knows what
it really is or how it came to be. As long as we go on feeling this mystery, we
feel free and full and happy and we feel and act free and full and happy to
others. This is the secret of being happy from the time you are small until the
time you are old.
If
you will remember everyday to feel the mystery and if you will remember to feel
that you are more than what you look like, and if you will remember to be the
mystery itself, then you will be happy, everyday. And all kinds of wonderful
happenings will come up for you. You will feel happy and you will always help
and love others- even those who are having trouble feeling happy- and are even
trying to make you forget the mystery. Someday you may meet someone who has
felt the mystery really strong for a long time. So that person feels the
mystery all the time and is always happy. Such a person is the best person to
learn from about happiness and life and love.
I hope you will remember to feel the mystery
everyday as long as you are awake forever. The best thing to tell anybody is to
remember to feel this. I have been doing this for a long time and it is the
best and most important feeling of all. I am very happy I can tell you this.
Maybe someday we will meet face to face, maybe. Anyway, at least you and I will
always know that at least one other person somewhere is remembering and feeling
and loving the mystery right now."
-from The Book called, "What to Remember to be Happy,"
by Da Free John.
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