Happiness can be found in accepting the present moment in its fullness. Nearly all suffering will arise from resisting what 'is'. But accepting the now, can allow the experience to flow though, like Tom says here, we can be like a tube of experiencing. Letting emotions / thoughts flow through us, and clinging to none of them. Joy is here, we can be with it, then it end, then sadness may come, and by then accepting that, it's felt, experienced and then the next emotion arises. That old saying of "What we resist, persists" is prevalent. All form of consciousness simply want to be felt in the Now, and can be. When they are felt and accepted, they can slip away, and consciousness can continue to flow.