i literally was just composing something with this similar sentiment you expressed here: "True mental freedom is empowerment to choose your state of mind. If the only happiness you ever know is dependent on external factors, you will remain a slave to circumstance and never be truly happy. " i am grateful for your continuing contribution to freedom and happiness for all. You are in fact, an anarchist bodhisattva! For a bodhisattva understands this noble truth you expressed about happiness never being determined by outer circumstances. Ultimate liberation is in the mind.