Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience. - Noah Levine

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.

We would all say that deep down, all we want is to be happy. Yet we don’t have a realistic understanding of what happiness really is. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure.