Video - Michael Beckwith: Happiness

"You discover your happiness when you're able to see that in every circumstance there is possibility, there is potential and there is an energy behind it pushing you to a greater expression of who and what you really are. So happiness is becoming more ourselves."

Happiness doesn't deny that bad things happen in the world, being happy in spite of those bad things is simply an acknowledgement of our soul's innate blissfullness - of that permanent part of our spirit that is joy.  And when you align yourself with that innate joy, you are more yourself than at any other time, because that joy is spirit, and that spirit is the most permanent part of you.