What is essential is invisible to the eye...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote a book called the Little Prince. In it he states, "What is essential is invisible to the eye." 

I believe that who we are is more important that what we have. And how we choose to define success is a choice entirely ours alone... but that doesn't mean we will be happy with it or that it will be satisfying. Living happily and satisfied is fundamentally set, timeless and universal in nature. These positive feelings do not recognize culture, color or creed. 

These universal set of requirements begins with relationships starting with God and then it reaches out to include our relationship with all of His children. 

Our "heart" guides and is shaped with our work, giving and service, diligent helpful/wise daily decisions, education, learning and improving, and having fun.

If feelings are the basis of so many choices we make, why don't we study them and understand them better? 

Antoine figured out one answer to that question - our eyes and other senses get in the way of realizing what is essential. 

And then there is the factor of all the other things we can't see... 

One ship drives East,

and another drives West,

With the self-same winds that blow;

Tis the set of the sails, and not the gales,

Which tells us the way to go.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,

As we voyage along through life;

Tis the set of the soul that decides its goal,

And not the calm or the strife.

-Ella Wheeler-Wilcox

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