“What is life?” “What am I looking for?”

“What is life?” “What am I looking for?” The first answer that rose to his mind was ‘happiness.’ He then asked himself, “When did I feel most happy?” The answer that first came to him was, “When 1 received love,” but he knew that was untrue. Although he had had many lovers, friends, and family members who loved him, he was not always happy. Therefore, he applied his power of analysis to examination of all the moments of genuine happiness in his life. He finally concluded that he felt genuinely happy only when he had given love to others.

He then asked, “If the moments of unhappiness in my life were the result of my heart not being filled with the giving spirit of love, then might I not turn back the clock in my mind and fill those moments with love, transforming them into happiness?” If happiness was an emotion generated by his state of mind, he surmised he could indeed transform the unhappy moments in his life into happy ones.

He immediately recalled his most recent, unhappy experience. It was the time when he was told by his doctor to go home to, basically, wait for death. Although he had previously felt rage at the doctor for forcing him to go home, thinking that perhaps the doctor did not want a patient to die on him while in his care, Lester Levenson now thought about how very difficult it must have been for the doctor to tell him that he was certainly going to die. The important thing now was whether he could transform the anger that he had previously felt for the doctor into love. He tried his best to recall those moments of rage and despair and melt them away second by second, moment by moment… until eventually he succeeded in replacing the anger with love. He realized, at that immediate moment, that he was indeed happy.

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