Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antitheses of happiness.
Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.
Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness.
Re-source: Relinquish
Whenever you are in a negative state, there is something in you that wants the negativity, that perceives it as pleasurable, or that believes it will get you what you want. Otherwise, who would want to hang on to negativity, make themselves and others miserable, and create disease in the body?
So, whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware at that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly.
- The moment this happens, your identity has shifted from ego to awareness.
- This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.
craving and resource from “A New Earth” Notes By Eckhart Tolle