How to Find Happiness

True happiness is based on a paradox, Easwaran writes, and that’s why it is so hard to find. As long as we try to make ourselves happy, life places obstacles in our path. But as soon as we turn away from ourselves to make others happy, our troubles begin to melt away. When we learn to live and work selflessly we don’t have to go looking for joy; joy comes looking for us.

Spiritual writer Eknath Easwaran combines deep insights with realism and warmth in this short essay, based on two articles from the Blue Mountain journal.