Sufism and Happiness

We treat happiness like it's this thing, a permanent thing. And the harder you chase after that, the more suffering you'll experience because that's not real life. We spend our whole lives chasing after something that is never meant to be had as a permanent thing and then boom, there you go. Now you're happy. You'll never experience the other emotions there because they're fleeting emotion. They're impermanent. So if we can understand the nature of happiness as something impermanent, then we have a new sense of freedom.