If you take only one thought from this newsletter, please let it be a belief in the fact that anyone can be happy no matter what's going on in their life right now. Happiness is not an emotion, it is a state of being.
Emotions are short lived.
Happiness is sustaining, it sticks around as long as we remove the unhappy feelings that block it out of our lives. These, plus a long list of other unhappy feelings, are totally useless. Actually, they are worse than useless because they bring suffering to the bearer. A reporter once asked the Dalai Lama of Tibet how it could be that the Chinese had taken his land and his people, had killed so many Tibetans, and yet he was not angry at them. The Dalai Lama acknowledged that the Chinese had indeed taken his country's freedom and possessions and had taken the lives of many Tibetans.