Happiness is Unity and Power

We have lost our purpose and our way. The result is confusion, depression, and maybe mental illness.

Me, forever alone. I’ve made peace with it. Own photo.

I had a useful dream last night. Those are the dreams that happen when you are asking yourself a question, and you cannot find an answer. Then, one night, when everything is shut off bar your unconscious mind, the answer comes to us in a dream. And that’s what happened to me last night. My dream gave me the answer I’ve been looking for some time.

What is the matter with us?

I think we’ve lost our power and connection. We’ve lost our human connection to others, and we’ve lost the power to do something about our own lives.

What is power?

Power is the ability to carry out your plans. If you have a lot of power, you can do what you’re like to do. If you have no power, then you cannot do anything you’d like to do. The degree of power you have is the degree to which you are happy and flourishing. Perhaps, you aren’t as happy as you’d like to be, but you won’t feel disempowered, and you won’t sink into misery, anger, jealousy, and other negative emotional states.

Years ago, I read a study in the UK. It showed that the people who felt the most empowered in their own lives were those who ran their own…