Probably the best place to start defining happiness is simply by defining what it is not.
A lot of people believe that happiness is having fun at a party, the enthusiasm of new experiences, the pleasure and passion of sex, or the delights of a fine meal. These are all amazing experiences to be cherished and cultivated but they are not happiness.
These experiences are just the definition of pleasure. They are experiences to have and let pass. A meal to enjoy, then digest.
Pleasure is temporary and must be if it is to continue to please us because if we were to have these ecstatic experiences all the time, our brains will adapt and turn pleasure into routine. If that happens, it will take even more to make us feel good again. Chasing pleasure is not happiness.
So, if happiness is not pleasure, then what is happiness?
Happiness comes when you experience satisfaction and fulfillment. Happiness is a feeling of contentment, that life is just the way it should be. Perfect happiness and enlightenment, comes when you have all of your needs satisfied.
Even though perfect happiness may be hard to achieve, and even harder to sustain, happiness is not an either /or case. There are almost limitless degrees of happiness between the bliss of enlightenment and the despair of depression. The majority of us fall somewhere in between, closer to the middle than the edges.!!
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