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Reality and Happiness
10 of March 2010
People will often focus on the outside world looking for something that will make them happy. The truth is that all the outside world is merely an illusion created by us. It has also already happened, therefore they is no chance of seeking happiness within it.
That is right, the entire world we see before us is the past. It is a creation of our past thoughts, never our present ones. Our mind loves to exist here, so it tosses this world up at us, like it somehow actually matters on the grand scheme of things.
So am I saying we should ignore this creation? Certainly not, just understand the value of it. See it for what is really is. The manifestation of previous thinking. With that in mind you have a different view of things.
Happiness will always be found from within. You cannot find it in any person, place or thing. However you can share that happiness with someone else if they are a match to your vibrations. If they are not, you will find discomfort in the realtionship. If you really want to find happiness it is found inside, no where else.
Newsflash!!!!
01 of March 2010
Newsflash! Life is a terminal disease……
Wow, it really is…..No matter what any one of us chose to think. Death is as certain as birth. There is absolutely no way around it, nor will their ever be. The time we spend in these physical bodies in finite. And we have no idea how long this might be.
With this mind, my question then is, “why do we take it so seriously?”
No matter what your ‘belief’ system is. If you think we re-incarnate, or go to some form of heaven, even perhaps ‘nothing’….Why so serious? Everything we do becomes history and most of it will be forgotten. What is the big deal? Should be not enjoy the time we have here instead? YES WE SHOULD!
There is only one reason why we don’t enjoy our lives and live to the fullest. We fall into the traps of MIND. Our reality is created by our thinking, and the constant stream of irrelevant questions and incorrect interpretations of the mind cause us to see the world in the wrong sense. We feel trapped and limited as we look at our ‘reality.’
As I have said so many times the mind exists in the past and tries to write the future from there. The problem is that it is not disciplined. It is like letting a 2 year old child run a life. By taming and taking control of the mind it becomes a powerful tool, one that can be used to create the reality of your choice.
The only way to quiet the mind is with mediation. The benefits are worth the effort required 1000 fold. The results you will see in your lfe for the small amount of time invested with shock you.
Change the way you think and the things in your world will change.







