The Secret of Simcha - Rabbi Doniel Staum

so what's the secret what's the secret to simha how many hundreds and thousands of self-help books are there how do you find that elusive happiness i once heard a great quote i believe in the name of palms who said that people are always looking for the city of happiness not realizing that it's really a state of mind there's no place to find happiness it's all depends on our attitudes and our perspective so i want to share with you one but i think it's very powerful jaco vavino is on his way into ghost and he turns around and goes back is it possible that i passed over the place where my father stopping then i didn't go down and he comes back to haram maria and he falls asleep there he wakes up in the morning and he says is this the place of hashem i didn't realize it says rashi four such powerful words if i would have known i wouldn't have slept why are those such powerful words that struck me how many people have the feeling what's my governing worth what's my learning worth worth are people that are greater than me i struggle so much in so many areas what's it worth how many people go to sleep figuratively metaphorically they go to sleep in there throughout life throughout their avodah hashem and everything because i'm not i'm not a heavy hitter i'm not so great what does it mean already people sleep their way through school because there's other people that are greater [Music] ilo yadatti jakovino says if i would have realized how holy this place is i would have known lo yoshanti i wouldn't have gone to sleep if we would realize how precious our efforts are how much we accomplish through our struggles we wouldn't go to sleep either we fail to realize the greatness of that i think one of the biggest causes of us feeling uncomfortable with ourselves restless and unhappy is because we feel like our actions are inconsequential they don't matter ilu dati iloiodano if we would know if we would recognize if we would value our efforts and how much we have to contribute to the world in our unique wet manner we'd be much happier people part of the problem is we're looking for happiness and that becomes our goal happiness can't be a goal happiness is a feeling the goal should be to recognize my greatness to recognize my contribution to always be pushing myself a little more when a person feels like they're growing a person feels like they're accomplishing when a person feels like they matter then they feel happy so don't search for happiness search for meaning search for productivity search for appreciation of your contribution and the symbol sasha [Music]