Tuesday, April 4, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A lot of people are exploring the surface-level, \u201cpursuing happiness.\u201d That\u2019s an unfortunate phrase to have been coined by our founding fathers. First off, happiness is way<\/em> overrated. Why not be elated, blissful, ecstatic, or serene? Those cannot be pursued, however. We\u2019re born with a form of innate curiosity, which is often misinterpreted as discontent with our surface conditions, what lies outside of us. As young people, we set out to \u201ccure\u201d that discontent by the pursuit of goals. At first, you\u2019ll find all sorts of goodies on the outer fringe. But it\u2019s a wasteland, made up of the contents of garage sales. Surface-level exploration bobs on top, where all the \u201cstuff\u201d floats, like pond scum. There you\u2019ll find careers, titles, possessions, relationships, education, money, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s exciting to pursue the outer fringe initially, but that\u2019s where we think we\u2019re going find fulfillment and so-called happiness. The pursuit soon becomes empty, and the discontent grows louder. More outer fringe exploration continues to produce icy results. That pursuit becomes enveloping, covering us in an outer layer of ice and meaninglessness. But it\u2019s all about development, uncovering inner depths, the only place you\u2019ll ever find what you\u2019re looking for – light, life, and warmth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The discontent of the outer fringe eventually becomes exhausting. Inner development is not part of our common pursuit. 99% of the world spends its time on the outer fringe, cold and dark. The symptoms of an outer fringe dweller: habitual worry and anxiousness; enveloped by possessions, schedules, and the unimportant, like politics; addicted to past and future; half-eyed, daily living; slack-jawed consuming; conforming to the crowd; compulsive behavior like overeating. The cure? A quiet, still journey to within, an exploration of oneness that develops, unfolds, and expresses itself in each human as joy, love, and serenity. That\u2019s not an enveloping pursuit. That\u2019s the loving development of the divine spirit expressing itself as<\/em> you. Your so-called pursuit is to connect to that divine flow, and remember it never hangs out on the outer fringe. Its aliveness is sustaining you from the warmth within. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday, April 4, 2023 A lot of people are exploring the surface-level, \u201cpursuing happiness.\u201d That\u2019s an unfortunate phrase to have been coined by our founding fathers. First off, happiness is way overrated. Why not be elated, blissful, ecstatic, or serene? Those cannot be pursued, however. We\u2019re born with a form of innate curiosity, which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1788,1786,1789,1787],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morning-motivation","tag-how-can-i-connect-with-myself","tag-how-can-i-have-a-fulfilling-life","tag-why-does-life-seem-so-empty","tag-why-is-pursuing-my-goals-so-hard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}