Happiness

[poliphilo]

Happiness is when you don't know you're happy- when you're absorbed in whatever you're doing and things just flow. If you start to think, "this is happiness" you've distanced yourself from the pure state and the happiness is already in the past.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think of happiness as lying near the middle of the scale. Beyond happiness are states like joy and ecstacy which are certainly only sustainable for very brief periods. Happiness is what I felt the other day when I was sitting on the beach chucking stones in the sea. But, yes, we can only know we have been happy if we have also been unhappy.