The closeness of unconditional joy

Are you happy? When you feel that out, what happens? For me, my mind wanders out into the ‘circumstances of my life’ and then evaluates good or bad, happy or unhappy….. but closer than that, when I just turn my attention to what’s here…. to what’s still, and always here – to the essence of what is so much closer than any external circumstance… I encounter this unconditional joy…..