Keeping Your Happiness

"Are you happy?" the Guru asked his student when she was about to leave his Ashram and go back into the world.....

"Oh yes, very happy," she replied.

"You happy?" he asked again.

"Yes, Guruji."

"Happy you?"

"Yes, yes, happy happy."

"Happy happy?"

"Yes, yes."

"Good. Keep it.......keep it"

---- the Guru knew how hard it is to keep happiness, how quickly we give it over to petty worry and fear. Or how life can bowl one over with something that causes unhappiness. So when I start to feel unhappy......I tell myself this mantra about my happiness: "keep it.....keep it!!"

*From - "Sweeping the Dust" - written by Ruth Lauer-Manenti