True Happiness

I want to talk about happiness.
The world today has a lot of theories on how to be happy. Money, power, sex, no responsibility, recognition for achievements, many other things as well. I've been down many of these "paths of happiness" in my life, but found the "happiness" to be short lived and fleeting. The hole, you know...that feeling of unfulfillment, persists in these paths and in many cases grows. The problem here, with all of these theories to be happy, is that they are flawed in this basic premise: That receiving and taking from the world will bring happiness. To take money, to take power, to take virtue, to take your time, to take glory. All of these theories focus on the "me" and getting what "I want and need".