When your awareness is on the underlyingness of life, you know happiness. When you feel unhappy, your awareness has fled to the surface. In unhappiness, you have made events, situations, people your basis when they are not your basis at all. You have become so distracted by surface happenings that you think that is all there is, and you go up and down accordingly.

The surface becomes momentous, and that which sustains the surface, becomes forgotten. Only the surface can become disturbed. The underlying truth of you cannot.

Perhaps you have let the surface up's and down's rule you. Now let the truth of you rise up to the surface. Let truth be like the swimmer who dives from a diving-board and then rises to the surface of the water and up, up into the air above it. How beautifully he lifts up! What grace! What momentum! The depths of the water rose to the top with him. It was like one movement, his dive and his rising.

A diver does not just bobble on the surface.

When you finish one glass of water, you are not dismayed. You know there is more water and other glasses of it. Because one chapter in your life ends, it does not mean you are no longer connected to the Source.

Take a mental dive into that deep water and come up refreshed. It is My heart that you dive into. Renew your heart with Mine.

That you experience unhappiness is a mis-approbation. It is your thinking again. Your mind says: "This and that happened, so you are left bereft and must therefore be unhappy. This sense of loss means you are unhappy, and that is all you can be, at least for a while."

All you have to do is rejoin Me in your awareness.

Your true state of existence is happiness. It can be nothing less.

Your happiness is not dependent upon the start's and stop's of life in the world. Your happiness is irrespective of everything.

You need not be unhappy. Unhappiness is not foisted on you. Unhappiness is unawareness of your happiness. Happiness exists always. Unhappiness is happiness overlaid with illusion.

Happiness is your due. Unhappiness is not.

It is illusion in the world that there are opposites. You have a state of Being. You give your field of Being nicknames. You call it good today and bad tomorrow. You name it sad, or grievous, or tragic, or ecstatic as if what occurs in your life or the world is the major domo of your Being.

Nothing is required for your Being. Nothing can be added to it. Nothing can be taken away. There is no change to your state of Being. The only thing that changes is your appreciation of it. When you are distracted from the truth that exists within you, you are distracted. When you are troubled, you have gotten your mind onto a topic that dissuades you from Truth but does not and cannot take it away.

Gold made to look like iron is still gold.

When you feel unhappy, you have let appearances rule the day. Appearances again. This time the appearance is what the Oneness of your existence seems like to you at a random moment in space and time.

Birds sing joy regardless of the weather.

You and I run deep. Let My love surge in you. Know your happiness. Dip into Mine.