From the inside out

From the inside out
 
Don’t worry, be happy, said my Lord,
which seems, at first, a mere pleasantry,
 
but, o pilgrim, where does your happiness abide?
And on what does your happiness depend?
 
If it comes from the outside
(rather than from the inside out),
 
if it’s something you must
repeatedly chase down;
 
if it is, in fact, dependent on anything
apart from your relationship with God,
 
you are forever vulnerable
to its capricious abandonment. 
 
And how to be happy (per Meher)
from the inside out? 
 
Surrender fearlessly to the terrible
vagaries of the original Whim.
 
O child of God, surrender is when
happiness transcends into sublimity.