Everybody wants to be happy, but few know where to find it. In the following simple prose poem, John Burroughs finds happiness in the beauty which lies before us…

The lesson which life
constantly repeats
is to ‘look under foot.’

You are always nearer
to the divine and
the true sources of
your power than you think.

The lure of the distant
and the difficult
is deceptive.
The great opportunity
is where you are.

Do not despise
your own place and hour.
Every place is
under the stars.
Every place is
the center of the world.

John Burroughs – Look Under Foot