Part 41 of 46 · Chapter 41 · 12 min 45 sec
You’ve done the work on money. You’ve followed David through forty chapters of laws, principles, and practices. You’ve sat with the idea that wealth is energy, that thoughts create conditions, that the outer world mirrors the inner one. That’s a lot. Most people never get this far.
And yet here’s a question that might quietly land: are you actually happier? Or have you just gotten better at chasing? You can have the 50+ books on your shelf, the journals, the manifestation practices, the morning routine — and still feel like joy is something you’re working toward instead of something you’re living in. If something still isn’t clicking, this chapter is why.
It’s not you. It’s not that you’re spiritually behind, or that you haven’t done enough inner work, or that you’re missing some advanced technique. The truth is gentler than that. Most teaching around happiness frames it as a destination — something that arrives once the conditions are right. David flips this completely. He says happiness is not the result of conditions. Conditions are the result of happiness.
That reframe changes everything. If you’ve been waiting to feel joy until the income hits the number, until the relationship settles, until the work feels meaningful — you’ve been running the equation backwards. The state comes first. The conditions arrange themselves around the state. This isn’t a trick or a hack. It’s the same law of cause and effect you’ve already applied to wealth, now pointed at the one thing wealth was always supposed to serve.
So this chapter is an invitation. Not to a new practice. To a decision. Step inside and listen to how simply David puts it.
What this chapter unlocks
- Happiness is a decision, not a destination. David is direct: you don’t arrive at happiness when conditions improve. You choose the state, and conditions follow. The same law of cause and effect that built your understanding of wealth applies here.
- Sadness and joy are graduations of the same thing. Like hot and cold are just temperature, sadness and joy are degrees of expression. When you express your desires, you have joy. When you don’t, you have sadness. Follow your desires.
- What you resist persists. If there’s something about yourself you don’t like, resistance keeps it locked in place. Acceptance, attention, and detachment let it reveal itself and release you. This is the opposite of what most self-improvement teaches.
- Joy is your soul’s native state. David equates soul with joy and freedom. The lack of joy is the lack of soul expression. This reframes “feeling stuck” as a signal, not a verdict.
- You need nothing outside yourself to be happy. Healthy relationships add to happiness, but depending on others for it is an addiction. Love yourself first, keep your freedom of choice, and relationships become a gift instead of a contract.
The 30-second test
Listen to the first 30 seconds. If David’s opening line — that joy is the essential nature of life, the state we were born into as children before we learned to perform for it — makes something soften in your chest, this is your chapter. That softening is the part of you that already knows. It’s been waiting for permission to remember.
Why this chapter matters in the series
Forty chapters in, you’ve built a complete framework for wealth — the thinking, the energetics, the practices, the relationships. But money was never the point. It was the vehicle. Chapter 41 is where David turns the wheel toward what the vehicle was always carrying you toward: a life that feels good to live. Happiness II follows next, deepening the practice. Together they’re the heart the rest of the book has been beating around.
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happiness life is joy and joy is life the essential nature of life is joy joy is what life is made up of and vice versa it is the natural state of all beings anything with life and everything has life has joy as its natural state it is how we are born as children with a natural ability to live life with Carefree abandon and joy you can recapture that nature and extend it the same laws of the universe that apply to wealth also apply to happiness you’ve already seen many of these laws in previous chapters apply them to happiness just as you applied them to wealth this is especially so with the law of cause and
effect if you wish to be happy cause another to be happy conditionality is also an illusion when it comes to happiness you’re not happy because of certain conditions but certain conditions come into being because you are happy happy thoughts and images also result in happy external events and conditions remember too to act as if you are happy and be grateful for all even before you experience it and remember to practice Detachment perhaps the most important thing to remember is that the external World fashion itself to your internal world if you are not happy with the external World seek what it is internally that you are not happy with then choose to be happy about it
love yourself and the world will love you be happy with yourself and the world will be happy about and with you how do you do these things you just do them now do not complicate this it is imple make the decision right now to be simple make the decision right now to be happy with you and to love yourself happiness is a decision decide now to be of the state of happiness and all else will follow happiness is a Continuum of moments that are not resisted if you resist a moment you will not be happy with it also what you resist persists what you accept and bring into your light reveals itself and lets go
of you nconditional love acceptance Detachment unconditional love acceptance Detachment and tolerance all these lead to happiness sadness and Joy are different grades of the same thing they just appear to be different things hot and cold are actually just graduations of the same thing called temperature when you express yourself in your desires you have joy when you do not you have sadness follow your desires it has been said that happiness comes from you making things happen for you instead of you waiting for things to happen to and for you balance your body mind and soul without a balance you may become unhappy spend time doing things related to all these three aspects of you for your
body take care of it have fun with it enjoy it use it exercise it feed it well rest it and so on for your mind can continuously feed it with new knowledge xercise it think properly and exercise it think properly and eliberately rest it and so on for your deliberately rest it and so on for your spirit learn about it exercise it meditate and get in contact with it and so on and for all three listen to them and honor what they tell you and love them Joy is your true nature another word for your soul is Joy Soul equals Joy equals Freedom equals Soul the lack of joy is the lack of expression of
the Soul protect and nurture the environment nature whether it is in your immediate surroundings or around the world do your part and do more the health of your environment influences the health of yourself which influences the joy of yourself the beauty and comfort of your environment also influences your joy the joy and Harmony in all things that make up your environment influences your joy and Harmony it is all connected love laughter sharing enthusiasm optimism and light-heartedness these things make a person happy choose to be these things and you will be happy just make the choice to be these things from now on find the humor in everything everything has humor in it even the most
serious things try it at first it may be hard to find humor but soon it will become second nature after you get used to it and it will liberate you happiness is not found in a circumstance or event each event is just hat an event you choose to experience that an event you choose to experience an event as a happy one or an unhappy one when faced with an event choose the response that will bring happiness happiness comes from creating instead of reacting happiness comes from truthful observation of what is within you and outside of you it comes from being truthful to yourself and everything else outside of you the truth literally sets you free
free choose to be happy you are not your circumstances that is a powerful illusion your circumstances are you that is a truth try to understand this when you change you you change your circumstances choose to like yourself To Love Yourself scream aloud several times I love myself and do it convincingly just make the choice now do not complicate it it is a simple Choice what if there’s something about your yourself that you do not like start liking it and then change it see what you resist will never let go of you if a person told you not to think of the color red you will find yourself thinking of the color red whatever it is
that you do not like about yourself stop resisting it instead accept it bring it into your light love it and look at it calmly with Detachment smile with it and befriend it it will then reveal its secrets to you and let go of you but you must continuously choose to like yourself fully at all times this means that you start thinking about the thoughts you have about yourself whenever you get a thought about yourself that is negative end it instantly and go positive be deliberate in thought you become what you think about most often if you think unloving thoughts about yourself you become an unloved person both you and other people will be unable to
love you it is very simple choose well for it is all within your power to the extent that you choose clearly consistent L and believingly if you consistently think you are ugly unwanted unable to do this or that it will be so the universe will conspire to make the powerful thoughts you have of yourself to become true the conditions to make them true will arise change your mind and change your world choose well live now here like Harry Potter was advised by his Headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter and the philosopher stone movie it do not du to dwell on dreams and forget to live Harry Potter found a magic mirror that showed according
to Dumbledore the deepest and most desperate desires of our hearts but not knowledge or truth Dumbledore then cautioned Harry Potter against its use for although it may have felt very comfortable for Harry to spend all day dreaming of his desires doing so was not living living is what allows life to express itself and with expression comes Joy it is okay to dream but live life now here because the only place you can live life is now here Dumbledore then explained to Harry Potter that the happiest person was the one who looked into the magic mirror and saw only him or herself exactly as they were now here think about that there is an old saying
that says when you laugh the world laughs with you but when you cry you cry alone stop crying and start laughing keep it simple have enthusiasm live with passion how choose to do so just do it change your mind start seeing how good things really are and you will have joy look at he light and you will never see the light and you will never see the darkness change your mind change what you think you see you can be looking at he same thing and see a happy picture the same thing and see a happy picture instead of an unhappy one see the good in everything see the magic that is what happy people do
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are Marianne Williamson cultivate your relationships with people happy people statistically and quite obviously have healthy and happy relationships with friends and family love is a powerful force be friendly and of unconditional love and you will make friends and have many Fantastic relationships that said you must always remember that you need nothing out outside of yourself to be happy do not become a person that relies on others to be happy that is an addiction and a falsehood not the mention an unfair pressure placed on others that will only lead to eventual unhappiness love yourself and recognize that your love for
others must be unconditional and free then be friendly and keep your freedom of choice any relationship where you lose your freedom of choice is an unhealthy one that leads to unhappiness stable Fair free and loving relationships on all level lead to happiness think about this you do not owe anybody anything at all ever for any reason everything you do for others is a gift to them and vice versa once you nderstand this statement deeply you nderstand this statement deeply you nderstand this statement deeply you nderstand unconditional love one that understand unconditional love one that requires nothing in particular from others and one that is not pressured to give anything in particular to others and all
that exists are gifts given and accepted cheerfully and naturally from Love Comes Joy what is love love is not a bond it is a freedom a liberator not a binder it is a free expressor not a limiter in the presence of true love things flourish as they are perfect fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup Kalo jabran do not spend any time at all thinking about how unhappy you are or how this that or the other makes you nhappy remember you become what you nhappy remember you become what you nhappy remember you become what you think think about most of the time the less judgmental you are the happier you become the
more forgiving you are the happier you become cherish and nurture your freedom and let others have theirs as well practice unconditional love for yourself and for others freedom and love these are the keys to happiness do not cut your freedom short nor cut anothers true and unconditional freedom and love are the Flames that fuel creativity trust grow growth and expression of spirit hence Joy it is important to understand the nature of unconditional ove and freedom love and freedom that love and freedom love and freedom that comes full of conditions goes against he only constant in the universe change the only constant in the universe change very moment things change change is every moment things change
change is growth conditional love resists change it is a love of an idea not a person it is the love of a past known moment and not a future unknown moment it is full of fear that the conditions will one day not be met that fear attracts the very thing that is being feared this is evident all around our world today finally yet importantly conditional love and freedom takes away the power to choose happiness no matter what the vent is happiness is a choice people vent is happiness is a choice people vent is happiness is a choice people who understand this are able to face any situation with joy conditionality makes it harder for you
to do this to be happy start to understand and practice unconditional love and freedom start to enjoy watching others grow as they choose to grow not as you choose them to grow start to enjoy the unknown moment of the future and stop clinging onto a past known moment start creating instead of [Music] reacting end of disk 5 please continue this experience by inserting dis 6 [Music]
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