The wise ageless one within. It's there...aching to emerge. *** Happiness can coexist with despair. It really can. We need to stop having such narrow view of what happiness is. Being human is a rough ride, when we can embrace the despair the happiness is a byproduct. The clearer we get, the more this sort of thing occurs. When we are clear we can feel anything on the emotional spectrum and it flows straight through...we get stuck in some of this stuff before we get clear because we've never been allowed to be who and what we are.