Are you on a Quest for Happiness?
This is for most people one of the biggest goals in life: to find happiness. Sounds simple in theory, but it’s something so many struggle to do throughout life. Many search for happiness from outside: material things, vices, anything to temporarily fill the void they feel. What the truly enlightened among us know, is that the only way to fill the void within, is to focus on developing what’s inside.
People often reject difficult feelings—and even blame themselves for feeling something “less” than bliss. Here is just one example: “I SHOULD be blissfully happy, but I’m not. Any statement that begins with should” originates with the Writing on Our Walls. That mismatched thought, between expectation and reality, is one of the main causes of unhappiness. In fact, sometimes we increase our unhappiness by rejecting our own real, useful feelings of worry and discontent, attempting to replace “real” with “pleasant.”
