The highest spiritual path is life itself. If you know how to live daily life, it all becomes a
liberating experience. But first you have to approach life properly, or it can be very confusing.
To begin with, you have to realize that you really only have one choice in this life, and it’s not
about your career, whom you want to marry, or whether you want to seek God. People tend
to burden themselves with so many choices. But, in the end, you can throw it all away and
just make one basic, underlying decision: Do you want to be happy, or do you not want to
be happy? It’s really that simple. Once you make that choice, your path through life becomes
totally clear.
Most people don’t dare give themselves that choice because they think it’s not under
their control. Someone might say, “Well, of course I want to be happy, but my wife left me.”
In other words, they want to be happy, but not if their wife leaves them. But that wasn’t the
question. The question was, very simply, “Do you want to be happy or not?” If you keep it that
simple, you will see that it really is under your control. It’s just that you have a deep-seated set
of preferences that gets in the way.