행복으로 가는 길: 사랑과 존재에 대한 이해

### 지속적인 행복으로 가는 길: 사랑, 존재감, 내면의 지혜를 포용하기
* 💔 많은 사람들이 외부 요인이 불행의 원인이라고 생각하지만, 진정한 행복은 **자기 사랑과 수용**을 통해 내면에서 비롯됩니다.
* 🌞 보편적인 사랑은 우리 자신과 주변 세상을 변화시키므로 **지속적인 행복의 열쇠**입니다.
* 🧘 내면의 평화와 행복을 찾기 위해서는 **현재에 집중**하고 **자아에서 벗어나는 것**이 필수적입니다.
* 🎭 세상은 무대이고 우리는 배우입니다. **관점을 바꾸면 슬픔 속에서도 모든 순간에서 기쁨**을 찾을 수 있습니다.
* 🌌 분리되어 있다는 착각과 **모든 것이 서로 연결되어 있다는 사실**을 인식하면 인생의 어려움을 은혜롭게 헤쳐 나가는 데 도움이 됩니다.
* 🌿 자연 속에서 혼자 시간을 보내거나 자기 성찰을 하는 것은 **사회적 조건에서 벗어나 자신의 진정한 욕망과 가치를 발견하는 데 도움이 됩니다.**
* 🔇 외부 소음을 차단하면 내면의 지혜를 들을 수 있고, **장기적인 행복**을 가져다주는 활동으로 우리를 안내합니다.
* 🧘 "다른 누구도 우리를 알지 못하며, **우리는 누구보다 우리가 누구인지 알아야 합니다.**"

사랑은 지각을 변화시키고 존재감과 자기 인식을 통해 지속적인 행복으로 이어집니다.

the first step to becoming happy is realizing how we are making ourselves unhappy. This is very hard to see because we are certain that something outside of us is making us unhappy, that some event from our past is preventing us from being happy, that there is some defect within us that prevents us from allowing ourselves to smile, to love. If we were in a constant state of loving everyone and everything, we would be ecstatic all the time. But so many people justify closing our hearts off to the universe around us, and so we have to ask ourselves, What am I afraid of that would happen if I were to be open and to love every aspect of this magical, chaotic, crazy Universe we live in? For most of us, there is a fear we'd be taken advantage of or that we'll be hurt. This is not love. Love is wisdom. Love is about not just creating our internal conditions for optimal happiness, but it is about letting others around us see their own potential, see their own light inside of them, see their own worth and value.

through your eyes, and when the people around us feel loved, feel worthy, they are not going to be as likely to cheat or to betray us because people often act the way we treat them. If we treat someone like they might be a thief or a liar or a hurtful person, they're more likely to be that. So, love does not mean allowing abuse; it means to love ourselves enough to get to safety, to love ourselves enough to not be put in a situation where we can be taken advantage of. But it also means we love those who didn't get enough love and who are hurting others right now because the only way to change the world and to make it a more loving place is by being more loving. The other misconception people have is that love must be reciprocated, and this is also a fallacy because that is neediness, that is attachment to an outcome, and we already miss this perfect, blissful moment that we're almost always in sight of unless we're being physically harmed. We can feel

Bliss, and even when we are in pain, we don't have to suffer. We don't have to turn to that mental reaction that says, Why is this happening to me? I don't deserve this, and creating that response to genuine pain that creates even more suffering. Every single thing we do in life is with the intention of leading us towards a more pleasant existence and away from a painful one. That is why we take our hand out of the fire as a child and we don't put it back in. This is why we seek out what we hope will bring us lasting happiness. And so we have this guide within us that is always pointing us towards this ultimate truth that is love. Love is greater than hate, and only people who have never experienced this feeling of universal love, which is love for everything, not a romantic love, not family love, but love for every moment, for every living being. This is that greatest feeling that we are being pulled to as a species, and that I believe we're getting close, closer to every day. And the beauty is

that when we become our happiest selves, when we create that inner change, everyone around us changes, and the world changes. We cannot commit crime when we feel the Oneness of everything. We are just stealing from ourselves. We are just hurting ourselves when we hurt others. When we hate others, we are embodying hate. No matter what happened in the past, it is over. It is gone. There is only this moment. And just like if we cut ourselves and we are healing that cut, when we slipped on the knife in the kitchen, it is over, and there is a remnant of that in the present moment, but that is something that will heal. And everything from our past can heal. And the way that we heal is through that cleansing spaciousness of presence. If we keep reliving the past, if we keep worrying about the future, we are just opening that wound over and over again. And the best disinfectant is presence. We don't think our way out of our problems, our pain, our trauma. We let that Bliss of

presence that present moment love that is the center of who we are heal all, and there is nothing stopping us in this very moment from being happy. Often, we think that, well, if someone's being really mean, verbally abusive, that that prevents us from becoming happy, but that only happens when we identify with the ego, when we identify with a fictional part of us that needs praise and cannot stand blame, criticism, and other people's negativity. When we disidentify, it's like watching a movie, and someone may be screaming, and it may be even right at us, but there is this screen between us, and those words are not penetrating us because we know we're not the ego. We know we're not this social construct that requires the admiration of others and crumbles in the face of lies and slurs and rumors. People are going to people, but we are spiritual beings. We are consciousness watching a movie, and sometimes that movie is turned inward, and we are just watching thoughts, memories, worries, criticisms, and judgments as we get lost in that egoic.

mind those egoic mental patterns, and we are missing the show. And so, when we become present, it is like teleporting from a memory, a thought, a different place in time and space. And we teleport into reality, and it is incredible, it is rich and alive and peaceful, and everything in our minds is low resolution, not vibrant and not reality, but just like how when we dream, we know that everything is one. We know that we are the creators of the dream and that it is all a projection from our mind. This is a microcosm of our true reality, the world we live in, the universe we exist in. It is all from our consciousness. We are the viewers and creators, and whatever we choose in this moment is possible. A lot of people think that being happy means thinking happy thoughts, but that's thinking happy, that's not being happy. The key to being happy is to simply be present when the mind is focused on the here and now, when it is able to rest in the space we are in, and from the bliss of being present.

happy thoughts naturally arise. There's no more resisting, there's no more getting mad at someone cutting you off in traffic. It's just all the flow and the dance of this magical universe. And if it went how we always wanted it to go, it wouldn't be interesting, it wouldn't be exciting, it wouldn't be surprising, and we'd be bored. So, be grateful that it's beyond our understanding, beyond our expectations, and let go of those need to control, that need to have it be predictable. And wherever you are, you can enjoy the show no matter what is happening. And this is the key to lasting happiness because we all are getting older, we're all going to die, and even in grief, there is beauty, there is love, there is poetry, there is meaning. If we were to lose something and not grieve, it would have had no significance and importance in our lives. And so, even in sorrow, there was great joy. We just have to expand our perspective to see the whole of this universe as

one, and this is how we can always take pleasure in whatever is going on with a plant in the corner, the smells of the air, the textures all around us. This life is a miracle. Every single second and every breath we have is a gift. When we lose that broader perspective, we suffer. But when we expand that image and we see the wholeness, it is just the greatest drama, comedy, tragedy ever told, and there's no reason for us to suffer this incredible movie that we are always watching. More than a movie at the theater where we experience no suffering, even though we feel every emotion of the characters involved. Underneath the Oneness lies this illusion of separateness, and the illusion is so good, so lifelike, that we forget all the time that it is just an illusion. It is the blink of an eye in Cosmic time. It is the short trip around the Sun, but it is not eternity. These little moments, these few years we're here, aren't life or death, not meant to be.

taken so seriously. We are just here to play, explore, learn, and grow. And when we start to look around and ask ourselves when something doesn't go our way, if we can say, What is the universe trying to show me? What is it trying to teach me? then we are just explorers exploring the universe, exploring it through these bodies, and expanding and evolving our consciousness as we go so that we can explore even more, and not just out there but within. Just as far as you can travel on this Earth or to the space station, you can go even deeper within, and you can explore the entire universe within. The problem really lies in the fact that most people never look inward, and so every moment seems like life or death, every day at work seems like the most important day at work, when in reality, it is just another day, just another day out of billions of days. And when we take that bigger perspective, we remove the pressure, the stress, the worry, the negativity that we put on

ourselves, and we can actually just be present, enjoying what we're doing with our full attention, so that we do it even better than if we are constantly worried, constantly thinking about what could go wrong, or thinking about whether it'll get us our promotion, or our raise, or our next house, or impress a romantic partner. And this truly is how we stay present; this is how we flow through life without resistance, and we are one with the universe because we are not forcing it to be a different way. We are working with it to achieve the goals that our highest self knows to be true for us. We are bombarded from morning till night with messages from society, our family, our friends, and the media, and all of this input can make us forget who we truly are, can make us forget what we really want and care about in life. And so, when we block all of that out and turn inward, we find ourselves; we find that compass pointing us in the direction to take our lives. It is really essential because what you discover when you

travel the world is that one culture is just completely into one way of believing and thinking about things, and you then discover, Wow, that is how I was, except in a different direction, and we realize how much we are a product of our environment and our society. And so, when we spend a little time in nature alone, or when we spend some time just closing our eyes and listening to our breath, we are able to discover what truly makes us happy instead of what society tells us will make us happy. And as we look at it more and more, we realize that anything that brings short-term happiness is not true happiness. And it's those actions and even lack of action, where we are not consuming content and entertainment, that we are able to raise our happiness levels after the activity is over. And these kinds of activities that take a little effort at first but make us happier in the long run, those are the things we'll start chasing: our fruits and vegetables, and our yoga and meditation. And so, we just have to block

out the noise so we can finally hear our higher self talking to us, and the wisdom within always knows what's best. Nobody else knows us, and we need to learn who we are more than anyone else. [Music]

This Video Will Leave You Speechless

Todd Perelmuter

우리 자신의 불행에 어떻게 기여하는지 깨닫는 것이 행복을 향한 첫걸음입니다.

사랑은 내면의 행복을 만드는 것뿐만 아니라 다른 사람들이 자신의 가치와 잠재력을 볼 수 있도록 돕는 것이기도 합니다.

진정한 사랑은 집착이나 결핍이 아니라 상처받은 사람을 포함한 모든 사람에게 열린 마음과 사랑을 베푸는 것입니다.

내면의 변화를 위한 존재감의 힘

내면의 변화는 우리 자신과 주변 세상의 변화로 이어집니다.

타인에게 상처를 주거나 증오를 품는 것은 궁극적으로 우리 자신에게 해를 끼치며, 과거로부터의 치유는 현재의 순간을 통해 가능합니다.

에고에서 벗어나 현재에 충실하면 우리는 우리 자신의 행복을 창조하는 풍요롭고 활기차고 평화로운 현실로 순간이동할 수 있습니다.

통제력을 내려놓고 삶의 예측 불가능성을 받아들일 때 행복한 생각은 자연스럽게 떠오릅니다.

슬픔과 슬픔에는 아름다움과 의미가 담겨 있어 경험의 소중함을 일깨워줍니다.

관점을 확장하여 우주의 전체를 바라보면 매 순간 기쁨을 발견하고 삶을 기적의 선물로 인식할 수 있습니다.

내면의 탐구는 인생의 더 큰 그림을 볼 수 있게 해주므로 개인의 성장과 이해에 매우 중요합니다.

대부분의 사람들은 외부의 압력에 집중하여 스트레스와 걱정에 시달리지만, 내면을 들여다보면 명확성과 목적을 찾을 수 있습니다.

사회적 메시지에서 벗어나 내면으로 눈을 돌리면 진정한 자아를 재발견하고 가장 높은 목표에 부합하는 데 도움이 됩니다.

자기 성찰을 통해 진정한 행복을 발견하기

여행과 다양한 문화 체험을 통해 우리가 환경과 사회에 의해 얼마나 많은 영향을 받는지 알 수 있습니다.

자연 속에서 시간을 보내고 마음챙김을 실천하면 사회적 기대치를 따르기보다 진정으로 우리를 행복하게 하는 것이 무엇인지 발견하는 데 도움이 됩니다.

요가나 명상과 같이 노력이 필요한 활동에 참여하면 궁극적으로 장기적인 행복과 자신에 대한 더 깊은 이해로 이어집니다.