Carry each joyful moment with you as though it hasn’t passed; but do not allow your happiness to depend upon your ability to recreate those moments – you can never recreate them and you will die trying.

If you set conditions on your happiness – “I’ll be happy if only I could experience -this- once more, or -that- for the first time” – you will spend the rest of your life trying to relive the past — and the present moment — the Here and Now — will escape your consciousness as though it is your final breath on this Earth.

When you experience something wonderful and amazing – the healthy way to hold onto it is to continue to allow yourself to feel the way you felt while you were in that moment – without the pain of wishing to be in that moment once again. You don’t need to be in that moment to feel its joy. Be as joyous now as you were then.

Don’t allow yourself to become addicted to conditional happiness. When your happiness depends on any person, place or thing – your emotions will turn into a rollercoaster disaster. Change is constant – people come and go in our lives, our current location changes day to day and possessions disappear without warning.

When you are happy – truly happy at the core of your soul – you can love everyone and everything around you with all of your heart yet love just the same if it all disappeared tomorrow. Why? Because being truly happy is all about living in the moment.

Unconditional happiness. Stop looking for a reason to be happy. Stop looking for a reason to love. Just Love.