As the human we call Eckhart Aurelius, I have been very happy every single second of every single day for at least the last few years.
I have more happiness every single second of the day than most people have even at their peaks. I have more happiness every single second of the day than the average person has while literally in the middle of having sex or an orgasm. I have more happiness every single second of the day than a fat kid eating cake.
No matter when or where you are seeing me in this human form we call Eckhart (or Scott), you can look at it and confidently say, "Look at Eckhart! He's happier than a fat kid eating cake!" Indeed, I'm happier than a heroine addict shooting up. I'm happier than an alcoholic on a bender. I'm happier than a cheater having an affair. I'm happier than a comfort-addicted enabler comfortably giving their drug-addicted child money to buy drugs. "Mmm, so comfortable," they think, as their child dies of an overdose. I'm happier when I'm doing nothing than those people are doing the thing they love and crave most.
On this roller coaster called life, I'm happier on both the ups and the downs than most people ever are even on their highest ups.
Because I am sooo happy all the time every single day of my life and living in this constant state of wonderful invincible blissful nirvana that I frequently call "inner peace", people often ask me for advice. They at least pretend they want to be as happy as I am, and perhaps a few do but somehow haven't done it yet even though they are 100% in control of their choices and 100% in control of whether or not they have the true happiness that is free-spirited (a.k.a. self-disciplined) inner peace.
Of course, if and when I do charitably and generously give my advice to them based on their request for it, they then most often just disagree with me, or otherwise come up with some excuse why they won't follow it or why it doesn't apply to them. Or, they just jump past all of that and jump to applying the advice to others instead of themselves: "Oh my annoying spouse needs to read your book!", "This reminds me of the disgusting hate-worthy Trump, that evil bastard!", "This reminds me of Biden, that evil bastard!", "I wish Trump would read your book and follow its teaching," "I wish Biden would read your book and follow its teachings," "I wish my drug-addicted son would follow your book's teachings; he'd be so much happier if he did", "My boyfriend needs to look in the mirror and take self-responsibility, just like your book says", "You're book is right; my neighbor needs to stop trying to clean my backyard and clean his own first! He should follow the teachings of your book!", "If only Democrats followed these teachings!", "If only Republicans followed these teachings!", "If only my neighbor followed these teachings!", "If only my sister followed these teachings!", "If only my younger self had followed these teachings!", "I wonder if I can get my future self to follow these teachings after I'm done doing what I'm doing this weekend."
Whether they take it or find a way to disagree or dodge it, I might (but probably won't) ask them, "Is your real goal to be happy, day-in day-out like I am, in the sense of the true happiness of consistent unwavering inner peace, or is your goal to rationalize the way you've been doing things so that you can more comfortably continue to do them the same way?" It's fine with me, either way.
If you are unhappy and want to continue being unhappy, and you pretending to want my advice will help you with that goal of continuing to be unhappy. That's great. Go for it.
If you genuinely want to be happy like I am and think my advice will help with that, then that's good too.
Regardless, my number #1 top piece of advice is always this: Don't ever take any advice from unhappy people.
That also applies to the human in the mirror.
If you look in the mirror and see someone miserable (i.e. someone lacking the true happiness of free-spirited inner peace), then my advice is to absolutely not take that person's advice. In other words, my advice is don't take the advice of that miserable ungrateful complainer in the mirror.
In contrast, if you want the same results, then, by all means, keep doing the same thing. You see what you want to see, and, when it comes to your choices, you always get exactly what you want, meaning what you choose. I think that's beautiful. If you are living in a living hell and want to keep doing what you've been doing, go for it. To each their own. Live and let live. More power to you.
In other words, the beauty of this eternal heaven in which we all eternally live is that it is so heavenly even the hell-wishers get their wish. This inexorable heaven is so heavenly that if you want and choose to be miserable, you get your wish. If you want and choose hell, even an all-powerful all-loving god couldn't stop you from getting it. And that's great. To each their own. It's the beauty of freedom.
In any case, for those who want my advice for one reason or another, here is some of my advice given indirectly in the form of me telling you my own rules of thumb that I follow so that you can choose to mimic them or not, with my general advice being to definitely mimic them as best you can (if you prefer being happy rather than a comfort-addicted miserable slave):
Things I avoid doing, engaging in, or even being exposed to:
- Toxic Positivity
- White Lies
- Over-Promising
- Being a "Yes Person"
- Being a "People-Pleaser"
- Valuing outer peace over inner peace
- Valuing comfort and the comfort zone over true happiness and spiritual freedom
- Valuing non-brutality over honesty
- Being addicted to comfort
- Seeing or treating money or physical health/longevity as an end rather than merely a possible means to something infinitely more valuable
Things I aim to do a ton of and use to decide who to have on my teams and in my circles:
- Productive Laziness
- Self-Determined Stubbornness
- Eager to give and receive honest constructive criticism
- Radical honesty with oneself and others
- Knowing what you would die for (i.e. what's more important to you than your life itself), and behaving accordingly
- Knowing what's more valuable to you than money (i.e. what you would choose to have if given the choice between being financially poor but having it versus being given billions of dollars)
- Not being a "sell out" or spiritual slave in any sense of the words
- Valuing the true happiness that is free-spirited inner peace above all else, including comfort and the comfort zone
- Transcending the common human addiction to comfort
(i.e. not being a comfort addict)
- Find the happy spirituaBe stubborn, self-deterimined
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In addition to having authored his book, In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All, Eckhart Aurelius Hughes (a.k.a. Scott) runs a mentoring program, with a free option, that guarantees success. Success is guaranteed for anyone who follows the program, both for the free option and the paid option.
