JanalovinglifeDear Ones,
There is a powerful moment for us on a spiritual path when we fully realise that happiness is a choice. The conditioning might have hypnotised us into believing that something or someone in the external world will make us happy. And so most of us spend years or even decades in search of this “unique something”, not quite understanding that by perpetuating this belief we are giving our precious creative power away. But if we are seekers of truth and search for genuine happiness, in perfect divine timing it will be revealed to us that this happiness already resides within us and that it has always been there and always will be there.
This realisation is a major milestone on the journey of awakening and is to be truly celebrated. It’s a little bit like a cosmic joke or perhaps better a divine play. The treasure has been hidden and everyone is searching for it in places where it can never be found. I think the famous quote by Rumi’s sums it up beautifully: “You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck.”
Seeing the truth clearly is a moment of true liberation. We finally understand that it is not that we cannot experience true happiness in the outside world, we realise that we ARE the outside world. It is our reflection and so if we want happiness in the outside world we have to first find it within. And once we find it within, we’ll find it everywhere we go.
Often it is through meditation when we first start seeing glimpses of the wonderous joyful being of light and love we all are. The beauty of our true being is often revealed to us gradually. Perhaps that we are not blinded by our own splendour. Perhaps that we can start and continue another, this time more satisfying inner search following the eternal light of our soul. And we experience a growing certainty that this time we are on the right path. With each step our inner light becomes brighter, joy more exuberant and peace more blissful.
We notice the inner paradise starts reflecting into our external reality. Often first through our own reactions as we seem to respond with more ease to situations we previously found difficult. And then again in perfect divine timing the external reality becomes luminous too and we rendezvous with people, events, situations reflecting our own inner joy.
We might still waver, especially at the beginning and at times forget the secret of true happiness, But never for too long now. Once we see the truth clearly we can’t go back to the old ways of living. And if we do temporarily forget, we seem to remember sooner and sooner. We now know where all happiness starts and we learn to start all our external journeys there too: Within.
I look forward to meditating with you.
Lots of love,
Jana xx
You are very welcome to join us for meditation with the theme: Happiness Is A Choice
On Thursday 15th at 10 am on Zoom & Saturday 17th February at 11.30 * am at Tree Of Life Centre in Hove & on Zoom. (* GMT)
