''Emancipate yourself from mental slavery''

If you're not happy, why not? You've been trying to be happy, trying to chase down your contentment...That causes stress, and you'll never ''catch it,'' anyway. Life is a reflection of our thoughts/beliefs/actions; it's no good to chase contentment because that brings to life the reflection of lacking and poverty. You have to BE the contentment. Chasing it only underscores the truth that it is far from you.

First, distance yourself from the strivings that cause you nothing but stress and a fistful of wind. The problem starts when we try to reason with our happiness, as though it were a logical issue: ''if only I could get this, surely I will be happy.'' And when it isn't working out, we try more desperately to get it. More stress. The more we strive for happiness, the more unhappiness we heap onto ourselves. You didn't really want all that extra stuff; All you really wanted was the contentment you thought was attached to it.

So let it go. Be like the tree in the wind. It's flexible and happy. All that it needs to be happy and to thrive is right there with it. Don't be so rigid that the smallest upset breaks you. Everything you need to be happy is everywhere with you.