Heart letter 15 – from the quest for Truth to the awareness of Truth

Heart letter 15 -  from the quest for Truth to the awareness of Truth

 

Namaste,

In the last heart letter I shared with you some principles about the difference between the mind and true intelligence. Now I would like to share with you a distinction between truth and the ‘quest’ for truth.

 

To many the quest for ‘Truth’ is intimately tied to the idea of all that is positive. You may feel that if you are moving closer to Truth that your life should be happier or more positive. However, Truth itself already IS
positive. It is the sum totality of positivity – not as polarsied (opposite to negative) – but rather as that which is complete and therefor contains no negative perception.

You cannot add anything to Truth, nor does it need to be created… it is simply to be rediscovered. And that is what we really mean when we talk about the quest for Truth.

 

The quest is the process of the individual returning their full awareness to that which already is. But, in terms of a process, this quest is not a ‘positive’ one. It is ‘negative’. It is not about adding something to your self – or making your self better with more Truth – or being more positive - because in your deepest essence you already are all that is True… all that is positive!

Rather it is about a process of undoing the behaviours or conditions that keep you blinded to this Truth. It is a deconstruction. That process inevitably highlights everything that feels negative. And, it is actually a negating
process. Everything that has been accumulated – that is false – is to be negated. Not with the mind – but with awareness.  The mind is incapable of this task because the mind is so directly related to the stories you hold on to.

 

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heart letter no.14 – the responsibility of happiness

Heart letter – the responsibility of happiness

 

Hello Dear Ones,

 

Happiness is my motivation… and it is yours too.

 

I do what I do because I want to share happiness. I do so because I have true happiness in every moment. And I know that this happiness is within us all and at the heart of every person’s quest. The desire for happiness makes us all the same. And if you are to consider your motivations in every moment, if you look a little deeper than the surface, you will see that everything you are doing, everything you reach for, is driven by the hope that it will bring you a little more happiness.

Interestingly though, most people’s quest for happiness is dependent on external circumstances. We so often place the source of happiness on outer conditions – thinking that if everything around us can meet our needs it will make us happy. We even blame life and others for our unhappiness.

However the truth is, if you want to be happy in life, you have to take responsibility for yourself. Letting your self be defined by others or by life’s external circumstances will keep you feeling as if true (and lasting) happiness is out of your reach. In doing so you become a victim of circumstance. Letting your self be a victim is a sure path to unhappiness.

Victims believe things just happen to them, that nothing is their fault and that other people make them feel or do things. This only generates blame, resentment and envy.

Ultimately our life… and our happiness within life… is up to each  one of us ‘personally’.

Even Aristotle said “happiness depends on our selves”.

At the surface level happiness is a choice. It requires us to approach life consciously, to choose our responses and actions with self-responsibility. At the deepest level it is our true nature.

In the first instance, we must recognise that happiness – and the energy of happiness – comes from deep within our own being. It’s what gives us the energy and motivation to be kind, loving, gentle and giving.

You will notice that these energies all express a movement from our inner being to the outer world.

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