Don’t Seek Happiness
As we learn in A Course in Miracles, the ego’s maxim is “seek but do not find.” That is such an important concept that the course actually repeats it four times.
The reason the ego so eagerly sponsors seeking is to convince us that we can actually find happiness in the world.
Think about how you would answer this question: What would make today a perfect day?
Would you want other people to act in a certain way? Would you want some changes to take place in your personal or professional life? Would you want certain things to happen for yourself or people you care about?
Of course we do.
We all believe that if things were just so in the world (according to our version of just so), then we’d be happy.
But it doesn’t work that way. Happiness won’t (can’t) be found in the world. It can only be accessed within the mind.
Hence the counsel of insightful thought systems such as A Course in Miracles and people like Eckhart Tolle.
We don’t have to seek for what we already have. Seeking proclaims that we are lacking. We simply need to turn within and re-acquaint ourselves with what we’ve forgotten.
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