THE EGO IS A LIAR

If you are a soul that has wandered long enough in the universe, you have probably given up by now of ever finding happiness. You may have noticed that as soon as you seem to find happiness, it slips away.

Actually, there is a reason for this. Most of us are in ego consciousness. And the ego always says that it just WANTS to be happy. But this is not true. In fact, the ego is lying. Why?

The reason it is lying is because the ego is a false or negative entity. So this false identity literally consists of negative thoughts, feelings, beliefs and desires.

So, when we are in ego consciousness, we are in a state of misery. This is who we think we are. We identify with misery.

Now, what happens when we temporarily leave this state of misery, when we are simply in the joy of the present moment? We actually think that we are beginning to disappear or that we are losing our identity [misery]. So, our natural reaction is to return to misery. After all, this is who we are and always have been.

THE ILLUSION

The other problem with the ego is that it is always projecting happiness on the outside and in the future. That way happiness can never be attained.

It is going to be very difficult to find happiness in the future. Why? Well, because there is no such thing as the future; the omnipresent NOW is the only reality. If you are not happy NOW, you are never going to be happy. If you are continually regretting the past and worrying and hoping for a better future,you are asleep in thought and living in the dreamworld of your ego. Reality is always NOW.

And it is also going to be difficult to find happiness through things, people and outer circumstances. Why? Well, because that is just not where happiness is. If you have been around long enough you know this is true. You say, I will be happy when I get married. So you create the  desire for getting married and you suffer until you get married. When you get married, the clouds of suffering are lifted for a while. But then you return to your false identity and the suffering returns. And you say, maybe I will be happy when I own a new house, a larger house, when I have two kids, a boy and a girl, maybe three, maybe four, etc...

Desire for things and outer circumstances only creates suffering. And when we fulfill the desire, we think the happiness was in the outer thing. So the desire for the outer thing increases and so does the suffering. This is how people fall into addictions. They think happiness is in the drug, the cigarette, the alcohol, the person, the sex, the money, the power, the things, the glamour, etc..

As long as you project happiness outside, you remain in misery. Why? Because you are believing in a lie or illusion.

WHERE IS TRUE HAPPINESS?

Now, let us discover what the truth is. We know that our self or being resembles a vortex. And our heart or will is the center of the vortex. And we literally create our reality or the world that we experience from what we love and believe. Our outer circumstances correspond to our inner loves and beliefs.

Can you see where happiness is now? It is right within us. And we are looking for it outside of us.

The world that we experience is just a three-dimensional holographic image in our mind. But happiness is a feeling, a feeling of Love.

So, we must seek Love and Truth within ourselves. Then we must express this Love in our own life by being grateful, useful, giving and forgiving. This is how we keep Love [or happiness] flowing within our reality.

When Love and Truth are flowing within our being, we see them manifested as harmonious circumstances in our outer world. This produces even more joy within. But we must always remember that the happiness is not in the circumstances; it is in the Love that is in our heart. As long as we are centered in Love or unified with God, we will be contented in any circumstance.

Elijah taught this Truth to a widow in the Bible. She was miserable, she had nothing but a few drops of oil and she could not feed her child. Where was her supply, where was her happiness? She tried to get it in the world but the world had nothing to give her; it was just an image in her mind.

Elijah told her to bake him a small cake. What a strange thing to ask from someone who had nothing? But Elijah knew the secret of happiness. Everybody has some thing, no matter how small, for which he can be grateful. When we bless and use what we have, instead of noticing what we lack, what we have starts to multiply. Whatever we give our attention [or Awareness] to multiplies or increases through the Law of resonance.

Then the word of the LORD came to him [Elijah]: "Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food." So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, "Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?" As she was going to get it, he called, "And bring me, please, a piece of bread." "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die." Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small cake of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.' "  She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. 16 For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the LORD spoken by Elijah. 1 Kings 17: 8-15