Are bliss, love, and seeing beauty in ourselves and others just temporary states?
Sometimes I go through moments where I feel unusually peaceful, loving, open, and appreciative of myself, other people, and life in general.
In those moments, I can see beauty very deeply — not just in other people, but in myself too. There’s much less judgment, comparison, resistance, or inner conflict, and everything feels lighter.
But then it passes.
Later there can again be fear, attachment, insecurity, comparison, self-judgment, irritation, etc.
So I’ve been wondering whether even things like bliss, love, compassion, self-acceptance, or seeing beauty in yourself and others should really be treated as some final or “higher” state that you’re supposed to hold on to.
Are there actually people who feel like that almost all the time — consistently peaceful, loving, self-accepting, with high self-esteem and very little inner conflict? Or do these states naturally come and go even for people who seem very psychologically stable or deeply self-aware?
Because the moment I think:
>“This state is better. I want to stay like this.”
it feels like I’ve already created another form of attachment or psychological becoming.
Maybe the important thing isn’t whether the present moment contains bliss, sadness, fear, attraction, love, self-love, or conflict.
Maybe it’s simply about seeing clearly whatever is actually there, without trying to hold on to one state and get rid of another.
In that sense, maybe awareness or presence is more fundamental than any particular feeling.
So is the point not to become permanently blissful, peaceful, loving, self-accepting, or compassionate, but simply to be fully present with whatever is happening — not as another state to achieve, maintain, or become, but simply as being?
And if a beautiful state passes, is there actually anything lost? Or does the problem only begin when we want that state to stay permanently?
