What is happiness? If I may, I will tell you what it is not. Happiness is not external. It is not an object that we must perpetually chase after. The world has often taught us that happiness is in the material. That we have to pay for it: sacrifice our money and our time, our sanity and our soul to find it. But happiness is something so much more. Something so much deeper and, yet, so simple and close. It is something dear and unique to wonderful you. Happiness is within you. Just as true peace and happiness is already within all beings. We all have the capacity to discover it and genuinely feel it.—Rose Alma (June 25, 1987 – June 17, 2013)