Life Was Meant to Be Happy

“All great truths begin as blasphemies,” said George Bernard Shaw, and he was right. His observation explains why so many great truths must be very gently introduced, with voices soft and the truths themselves understated.

Yet there comes a time when they can no longer be understated. They bubble up to life’s surface and burst forth in all their glory. These are great moments for humanity, for it is through such explosions of great truth that our species evolves.

Take the idea that you can be happier than God.

What a thought! What a concept! It’s revolutionary! So a lot of people have been resisting it. For years they’ve been pushing against it, denying it, even making it “wrong.”

Yes, people—and, ironically, religions—have been making it wrong to be even a little happy, let alone happier than God. (Well, maybe they haven’t made it wrong to be happy, just wrong to do most of the things that make you happy.)

Many people believe that life was meant to have a lot of pain in it. Suffering should be “offered up” to God. It should be endured in silence. That earns you points in heaven.

Our culture has completely adopted the idea that some people don’t want to be happy all the time. When you talk about how you can be “happier than God” they become fidgety, uncomfortable. They warn that you’re being “unrealistic.” You may even be “trafficking with the devil.”

They will tell you that life was meant to be unhappy. Life is a trial. It’s a school. “No pain, no gain,” and all that. People in large numbers believe this. When you say to them that life was never meant to be unhappy, that no one has to be unhappy ever, they look at you sideways. They don’t know what to do with that notion. They don’t know where to go with it. Often, they’ll tell you where to go with it…

Yes, this is blasphemy, the idea that you can be happier than God. Yet it’s true. It is not too good to be true; it is too good not to be true.

The Good News is that you do not have to go through hell to get to heaven.

This does not mean that you’ll never be sad again, yet sadness and unhappiness are not the same thing. We’re going to explore that idea here, as we look deeply at how you can be happy all the time.

Am I happy all the time? No. I’d by lying if I said I was. Am I happy more of the time than ever before? Yes. Is this starting to feel like most of the time? Yes. Do I really think I can be happy all of the time? Yes.

And you can be, too. You can be happier than God.

None of this involves materialism, or “me-first-ism.” In fact, the formula doesn’t work that way. The formula does allow you to create anything and everything you want, and I know that sounds like materialism, but once you know the whole formula, once you hear the Unspoken Truth in full, you’ll be very clear.

So let’s start with a basic truth, and then we’ll get to the truth behind the truth… more of that Unspoken Truth.

Let's see if it can be embraced as a possibility at least.