For many of us, the search for truth and meaning was a veiled attempt at creating happiness in an apparent void of joy in our lives.
You see, for those filled with joy having happy experiences, there would have been draw to seek anything.
All spiritual practices teach that happiness cannot be created, found or achieved it can only be realized. The very search for it or even INTENT to create it negates it from the onset.
To endeavor such a journey is validation the joy is not already present.
The caveat is that joy and happiness exists in all things if we choose to view them through the lense of gratitude.
Acknowledging and accepting the perfection in all we encounter will result in seeing the joy that has always been there.
In THE WIZARD OF OZ, Dorothy was searching for a way home. The Fairy (her guru, guide, conscience) enlightened her that she had what she sought all along all she needed to do was acknowledge it.
Click your heels together. You are that which you seek.