We seek happiness through things, through relationship, through thoughts, ideas. So things, relationship, and ideas become all-important and not happiness. When we seek happiness through something, then the thing becomes of greater value than happiness itself. When stated in this manner, the problem sounds simple, and it is simple. We seek happiness in property, in family, in name; then property, family, idea become all-important, for then happiness is sought through a means, and then the means destroys the end. Can happiness be found through any means, through anything made by the hand or by the mind? Things, relationship, and ideas are so transparently impermanent, we are ever made unhappy by them. We seek happiness through things and we do not find it there; in relationships we search for it and neither do we find happiness there, for there is impermanency in relationship though we try to take refuge in it; again we try to find happiness in thought, in ideas, in belief, and neither is it there, for one set of ideas can be destroyed by another, one belief overcome by another. Things are impermanent, they wear out and are lost; relationship is constant friction and death awaits; ideas and beliefs have no stability, no permanency. We seek happiness in them and yet do not realize their impermanency. So sorrow becomes our constant companion and overcoming it our problem.
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Are there some colours that you just don’t wear or don’t really have around you? Maybe you have convinced yourself a certain colour doesn’t suit you. Perhaps it’s just never occurred to you to try something on of that colour or you have an unreasonable aversion to it?
Overcoming Mediocrity
Many of you have been undergoing tremendous spiritual growth and change. With all the shifts and changes that have been happening to you, it is time to honour yourself more and begin to trust your inner guidance. The more you use and trust this wisdom, the more it grows and the more guidance and support you feel. Whatever you feed shall grow exponentially, and we see so much happening on your earth plane by those of you who are becoming so bright.
Sananda: This is Sananda. I come at this time in your new year of 2014 that many of you thought you would never get to this, but here you are now. But understand where you have come from. We have given this story before but for those that have not heard it it can be helpful to understand just how far you have come and why you are here now in the moment, in this very moment that you find yourself. Because so long ago you participated, each one here in this room and many others that may read these words, participated in the gathering, a conclave you might say, many thousands of years ago, and yes, in a galaxy far, far away. (laughter)
