The Moments of Happiness
The moments of happiness . . .
We had the experience, but missed the meaning,
And approach to the meaning restores the experience.
In a different form, beyond any meaning
We can assign to happiness . . .
. . . the past experience revived in the meaning
Is not the experience of one life only,
But of many generations - not forgetting
Something that is probably quite ineffable.
(from T.S. Eliot's ‘The Dry Salvages’ in Four Quartets)
Moonlight
Turn your face to the moonlight.
Let your memory lead you.
Open up, enter in.
If you find there the meaning of what happiness is,
Then a new life will begin.
