Embrace Your Happiness

[A] common belief that blocks happiness is the idea that it's selfish to be happy when so many people around us, or in the world, are suffering. This, too, can be easily remedied by becoming aware that our happiness doesn't take away from the happiness of others — it contributes to it. 
Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian - from her book The Jewel of Abundance, (2018, New World Library)

This true inner happiness is not the temporary relief we feel when a desire is satisfied, but the very core of our own nature. Meditation brings us in touch with the bliss that is at the heart of our being and at the center of Reality. This true happiness enables us to be skillful in service to others in the midst of challenges and frees us from overly identifying with changing events and turbulence in the mind.  This happiness enables us to be useful and frees us not from pain but from suffering. Embrace your happiness!