Since it is impossible to be unhappy over what you don't have without first having been subjected to some form of unseen painful comparison, this means...
In the end, and to the point of this work we do, the journey is from outward to inward. The journey takes a person from "out there" (powers and possessions, travel, drugs, new hobbies, friends, relatives, approval, etc.) to an understanding that as long as they look to anything or anyone outside of themselves, it is never going to reconcile or bring an end to the overwhelming negative states such as fear that are wrecking their life.
Looking for the power to be happy is not found in a person, place, possession, idea, or belief, but through the new understanding that your higher, permanent nature needs no power outside of itself in order to be in charge of an inner or outer attacker.
I feel drained from all my misguided and unsuccessful attempts to dream up ways to make myself more happy, more complete... I've had enough of feeling like I'm never enough and imagining ways to fill the void.
Topic: The Long Strange Journey to Being Happy with Who You Are (Classroom Talk 11/27/24)
The truth that sets us free is not for hire; it does not so much "work" for us as it is our silent partner, producing the new life we long for. This means that first, we must be receptive to truth's instruction in the Now; only conscious awareness of our aching can lead us to what authentically answers it, ending it. But secondly, we must -- ourselves -- be true in the same moment to what we know is the truth of that moment.
What if everything you knew about the law of attraction... was wrong? The truth is so much better than anything you've been told -- so much more powerful in its ability to transform your life. Until now you've only heard part of the story. But there is another side to it -- something I can virtually guarantee you've never heard before. Something completely opposite to what you've been t...
I feel that my life is an emotional roller coaster. One day I'm happy and my future looks bright and hopeful. Then something unexpected happens and I'm suddenly depressed and negative. Everybody I know seems to go through the same kind of thing. Is this why we're alive, to experience these changing sensations?...
We don't ever have to worry about happy endings to any of our life stories if we're awake enough to refuse all unhappy beginnings.
Many of us have come to believe that being a good performer in life is somehow the same as fulfilling the purpose of life. Here's the strange logic behind the self-created misery that follows it: For each successful "performance" we pull off around others or within ourselves, it feels as if we've won, for the moment, what we've imagined will make us whole and happy -- but the drawback here...