About…

I started thinking about the “secret” to happiness when I was 11.

I thought it must be a secret, as it seemed so hard to locate, to see, to pin down. Totally elusive. The ultimate rare DoDo bird.

But, as I’ve said a million times, something in me just knew it was possible. I don’t know how I knew. My parents and siblings definitely didn’t seem to be interested (or at least not in the way I was.) But, I knew… 

And to this day, it’s my first waking thought: what is the secret? How do I uncover it? And of course, how will I make it accessible to everyone? How can I prevent others from needless suffering? How can I change the world?

It’s been a long journey already. I’m 53 now. I’ve learned a lot and had more blissful moments than I can possibly count! But I didn’t learn as much from those moments as I did from the many depressed, sad, angry, anxious and even suicidal moments. Those are the moments that help us to see who we actually are, what we care about, and if we truly want to wake up.  Pain, loss and suffering are simply inevitable. But for most of us, they are the catalysts to wake up. So they are actually the diamonds crying out to be uncovered.

Now I can tell you, there isn’t a secret. But there is a cover up. So that’s what I am going to write about here. The grand cover up. 

And of course, how we remove that from our eyes.