Why is happiness so elusive?

one onced said: "happiness comes when you believe it's coming"!!

perhaps the problem is you :)

Happiness Is Elusive

Happiness is an elusive creature, for sure. But all with good reason. If we encountered happiness all the time, we wouldn't appreciate it the way we do now, when we capture it. Remember, for whatever pain and suffering you are subject to, there will always be happiness, whether you find it, or it finds you.

I think its in part what we percieve to be happiness... I know Ive had my thoughts of what I wanted my life to be like.. but mabye there's a realization that percieved happiness is never as good as the actual happiness... but we continue to seek the percieved happiness which has an elusive factor in that it may never have been obtainable in the first place yet we find it achieveable.

It will only be elusive if you search for it. You got to create it. Happiness is a state of mind.

Because it is believe that the source of happiness is outside oneself. Seeking happiness in externals is temporary and followed by unhappiness, because the material world is fleeting and subject to change. Hence we impose imaginary value, desire and crave, then become attached to them that which doesn't last. True permanent happiness comes from within, as sappy as it sounds. When we deeply realize that we already are all that can ever be wanted or needed, we are always happy despite external conditions. Rather than having an attached or detached view of the world, one adopts an "non-attached" attitude, where one is allowed to participate without having a vested interest in the outcomes or results in life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P0xr6AThWQ

Cause people simply love to ruin it for you , that makes it elusive , it's a defensive mechanism

It is not elusive but it is only temporary . When it is die down or disappear, then we start finding and struggling for it, again and again.This is the nature of human being ,whether you like it or not.

Happiness is Simply a Choice

It comes from within

Those who think Happiness is elusive keep looking outside of self a

nd will not find it there ever

Stuff, other people these enhance our Happiness

I think, Because, We are always Mentally Longing for It, While It is Physically Not Easily Reachable by us, It Looks Always Moving From us, When We are Running Behind It, Without Catching It.

Why is happiness so elusive?

~~~ Happiness is Love!

(You do the math!)

Find out for yourself and demonstrate for us all;

"Wage Love, practice Compassion!"

“Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - Rumi

tat tvam asi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tat_Tvam_Asi)