You can become perfectly happy without any change in the happiness. To have total unalloyed happiness forever if you want to but you have to pay the price. The price is giving up your ego, killing the mind. Getting rid of the dogmas and concepts, preconceived ideas that you've had for years and years. How do you do this? By becoming calm, just by becoming calm. If you can truly become calm you will be able to overcome every handicap you've ever had. You will be able to find the peace which passeth all understanding. If you truly learn to be calm the whole world will be yours.