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The Pursuit June 7, 2007 Life is a journey. We all hope to arrive at some lofty dream and achieve it to the full at some point in our lives. This destination can ultimately be called happiness. Yes, we all seek it through different ambitions, hopes, and dreams but in the end we all settle on one single state, a state of happiness. Success is too often associated with happiness, those who are successful are happy. Yes, many successful people are happy but certainly not all. This leads us to the truth that happiness brings success. If you are happy then you feel good and enjoy adding value to the world. This value eventually will contribute to someone else's happiness. An abundant attitude allows you to live in a way that is noble and morally good. The golden rule, treat others as you would like to be treated, is achieved by living and knowing that everything is as it should be. Not even a single person owes you anything but you owe everything to the world and the people in it. Every deed you perform should bring a service or some sort of value to others. Once you stop expecting anything from anyone else you can become independent of your circumstances. When you leave your happiness up to no one else but yourself you are free, free to abundantly overflow in all the good things life has to offer. This self-reliance can easily seem like pride, as if you believe you are greater than others because you don't need them to sustain your happiness. It is not pride because there is more to you than only your past and who you have been and what you have done. There is a great potential, a higher power within you and that is what you believe in. This faith in your higher consciousness allows you to always do your best and give your all to everyone you come in contact with. This free, independent, loving, true, spirit, which is full of potential, allows you to be happy. Then you can head out into the world and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. Whether or not you succeed is not important. It is in the pursuit where you find your happiness. The journey is now. As you read this, it has been confirmed. You have begun. There will never be a time and place like the here and now. Now you know happiness is a choice and is attained by having faith in the bright possibility within you. I cannot tell you how to achieve but only how to pursue a dream. In the pursuit you experience constant success and achievement. A dream will always continue to grow so there is no definite point of success but instead there is success at every point of the journey. The pursuit of a dream consists of the constant intention to do your very best, become a better person, and live in the bliss and joy of the journey. You must jump into the river of life and go with its abundant flow. When you swim against the current, life is difficult and tough to get through. Swimming against the current is likened to an attempt to control those around you and convince them to do things your way. We think that they owe us something, that they should make us happy. They never can because it is all within you and only you can let it out. Swim with the current, and work to improve and better yourself, which is completely under your control, when pursuing your dreams. Freedom is when you have the ability to pursue any task that you desire to achieve. It is the ability to make independent decisions based on what you hope to achieve. A person locked away in prison has the potential to be free even though he or she is physically imprisoned just as a liberated man or woman can be prisoner to bad habits or limited thinking. It is all a mindset. Simply, it is the complete and total use of everything one has in one's current reality. You may be of the middle class and desire to become more financially able. Are you free to take the extra time to look for other moneymaking sources? Are you willing to provide value to someone in exchange for monetary compensation? Or maybe you are not free, desire something in your life, and sit around doing the same old thing over and over again. Freedom is all about taking responsibility for you. If there is something you aspire to achieve you must acquire the self-discipline to be able to go out and get it. The solution is to stop depending on the uncertain. There is a higher power within you that gives you the potential to excel in the pursuit of anything you desire. One of my own desires is to help you reach a certain point of satisfaction and happiness in your life. Yes, I have been accused at times of being overly deep or too far on the bright side of events but I will continue to share my ideas to help even a single person have a better life. At times my ideas have been a little radical but that is because I'm still learning and trying out different belief systems. I am now committed to searching for the best way of life. I will never reach a final point but that is fine because the journey is the best part of the dream. Life is not about success but rather the pursuit of it. In the pursuit you are infinitely successful. Joshua Schwarz