You have always been total happiness. There never was a time when you were not total happiness. Yet somehow you got mixed up with maya, illusion, and you came to believe that you're a mortal being, separate from everyone else, having to go through experiences to become enlightened. That's really funny. You left your true nature, got pulled into maya, and now you're trying to get out of it. The truth is, there's no maya. There's nothing to get out of. You are already that, and all is well. We begin to feel that there's a living presence within us. As we work on that feeling, that living presence turns out to be us. It turns out that we are not the body, or the mind or the doer. We are that living presence. There's no name for it. It is beyond words and thoughts. But it is there, shining in all it’s glory. You feel the freedom, the love, the joy of it. (RA)