Pursuing happiness.
(Some thoughts on why we are here)
Do
you ever wonder why it is that we seem to go through life stumbling from one
crisis to another? Or why living on such a wonderful planet we find it almost
impossible to be happy for more than a short amount of time? Why is this???
We think that to have lots of food—money—beautiful things will do it for us, but
what happens when we have everything that we need (everything physical that is)
we become bored and seek the challenge of striving again.
Have you ever found it strange that many of the people who appear to “have it
all” seem to be on a course of ‘self destruction’ although to us they seem to
have every thing to live for…..
I
am led to believe that we are here to learn…and to do so we have to experience
all the various colours of life…the greys as well as the pastels. The happy as
well as the sad, for if we did not experience challenge we would be unable to
grow.
Think how it would be, if as a civilization we had nothing more to learn or strive for. We would begin to slow down in our evolvement and eventually stop, possibly begin to go backward …is this what is meant by natural entropy?
To evolve we must strive to conquer our environment and ourselves, and until we
see our challenges and misfortune in this light we will not be able to proceed!
Until we know our faults and can be comfortable with that knowledge we will not proceed!
And the biggest block to our evolvement?.... Self-ego! If only we could begin to
investigate and meditate on our ego-self, then we may come at least some way in
beginning to understand what complex creatures we are, and perhaps would begin
to discover who and what we really are?
For most of us today in the western world the whole purpose of our life is a pursuit of happiness, we spend most of our time devising ways to obtain the means to ‘be happy’!
We peruse goals that we think will lead to pleasure only to find that the end
result disappears ‘like snow off the dyke’ we rarely stop to consider why this
should be so? Why the more that we get..The nearer that we are to our ‘goal’ the
less contented we become?
What we fail often to take into account is that we are feeding the physical (ego-self) which at its best is simply an elaborate dressing for our ‘Spirit Self’ and often totally ignoring the things that can make us happy as Spiritual Beings.
As Oscar Wilde says in ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’
“Nothing can cure the Soul but the Senses.. Just as nothing can cure the Senses
but the Soul…” He wasn’t really far from the truth!
How often when sad of heart have we been transfixed by the song of a black bird or the sight of a beautiful sunset over the sea? We ‘feel these things in our deep soul’s core. And how often when having suffered intense physical pain, or disfigurement we turn to beautiful music or nature to heal us?
We need to always be aware that we are not simply physical beings…but also beings of light, and that in order to survive and evolve we need to feed our Soul as well as our Body.
By being aware of who and what we really are we gradually begin to ascend and
our focus and perspective changes. And in this way we begin to see the bigger
picture….a glimpse of the Divine!