another thing i have read and now will share with you

One of the hardest things in life is to be happy. Why? Because we feel that certain attributes cause happiness, and therefore we lose touch with what actual happiness signifies out side of ourselves-a sense of joy, of inner freedom. From Everyday Tao by Leonard Willougby.

I read this book last year, when, surprise, it came into the store. I am reading it again. It gives a good working sense of taoist philosophy in fairly plain language. Even so, i find i have to re-read some of the passages, not due to the writing style, but because the concepts are so simple that it is hard to grasp them, they just float up into your brain somewhere. but maybe a couple days later you will be doing something and wham, you think of it in the context of your activity, and it all makes sense. Until you realize that it doesn't.