Life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness.  These are rights one
nation has proclaimed as its own and as those of all other human beings.  These are your birth rights, indeed, because
all of you are not just human, but spirit. 
The soul is Life.  Life cannot be
taken away, even by the death of the physical body.  Liberty is always yours, even if the human
body is in shackles.  It is only the ego
which keeps the human shackled.  Freedom
comes with the dissolution of the ego. 
And happiness?  This is the natural
consequence of coming into alignment with the spirit.  Joy is the natural uprising of emotion felt when
love flows unimpeded through the vessel. 
These are indeed yours to experience, and all of these are directly tied
to the mind—to awareness of who and what you are eternally—and not to external
circumstances.