# Actual Freedom ~ Frequently Asked Questions Frequently Asked Questions ## What is Happiness?
| I want to know what does ‘happiness’ mean to you. To be honest, to me it still is a feeling. I ask this question in relation to your post to No. 3 (...). Which means that being ‘happy and harmless’ is a pre-requisite for actual freedom (at least it gives better chances). So it is very important to know what is this happiness which is required before one even attempts for actual freedom. For you, it [happiness] definitely is not [a feeling]. So what is it? Can it be sensed by physical senses? Do you see, smell, hear or touch happiness?
| Is there something you advise us to do to reach this marvellous state of pure happiness you are apparently in? Or is it something that emerges spontaneously into being by some fortunate few?
| Isn’t there a combination of conditional / caused happiness and unconditional / non-contingent happiness? For example, even when one’s enjoyment and appreciation is solely to being alive / being here, that may involve enjoyable activities that have a beginning and an end, for example eating something tasty. Shouldn’t one enjoy those activities? But what exactly is the perspective in doing so that maintains an unconditional happiness as being paramount?
| The essence of my question is in a response to Respondent No 60: ‘say you were able to eliminate all causes of your happiness – would you (by definition or otherwise) then be happy?’ This question is not pertinent to a real actualist ...
| Being that you called your 34 years of being normal a ‘great life’, (at least then) would you say (then or now) that you ‘enjoyed’ your life back then? I ask you this to determine whether you, like Vineeto, limit the words ‘enjoy life’ to being only applicable to how an actualist ‘enjoys life’. If you recall, she recently made the claim that animals and people do not ‘enjoy’ their lives. It seems to me that living a ‘great life’ would indicate enjoyment of life, wouldn’t you agree?
| ... why is happiness inherent to perfection? I don’t understand the quality-property-value connection ... is there a page on it on the AF site? I would have thought that qualities and values are specific to human experiencing and can not be attributed to the universe itself. I still don’t see why happiness is inherent to perfection. Are you simply saying that the make-up of the universe is such that if experienced by a human sans identity, that human experiences felicity?
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