happy and content. How could it be otherwise, united, dissolved in God, who is Himself content and nothing but bliss? But we, as God Himself, decided it may be fun to play a game where we forget we are God (how could we play without cheating if we're 2/

God and already know how it turns out?) So the game is this, forget who we are and find ourselves not as God in a dreamed creation but as a lost and alone spark trying to discover who we are, why we are here and what it's all about. So you can see, 3/

our nature is to be undivided but our experience is that we are somehow separate from the whole. This gives rise to the emptiness we all feel and we seek recognition of the God that unconsciously we know ourselves to be. We seek to know ourselves as the 4/

whole, complete, satisfied and blissful Being that, again unconsciously, we know ourselves to be. This gives rise to all our desires, discomforts, need for connection, inability to recognise any recognition that is given, ... Most of all it explains 5/

why whatever we try to fill that emptiness with - food, riches, prestige, power, drugs and alcohol, etc - never truly satisfies. Some things do help - friendship, connection, creativity, service: love - anything that is good that we direct outwards. But 6/

even those beautiful things can never completely satisfy us, for we remain incomplete while we only know ourselves as something separate, with an identity. The only way to true happiness is to rediscover who we really are - all of it, the entire cosmos. 7/

Of course, you would be mad to imagine you are the whole Universal Consciousness experiencing Itself as a small individual who, on a cosmic scale is next to nothing. It contradicts our experience. There is no possibility of such a belief to convince. 8/

So what to do? This is where the spiritual path is called for and what that term really means: the search for the true Self - who you are beyond body, mind and Identity. Society is structured in order to push identity on you, to convince you that you are 9/

this or that. Do you remember the ominous question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" International laws and treaties protect your identity. But does it depend on where and when you were born? The choices you make? The beliefs you form? Are you 10/

anything *before* all of that? How to know? These huge and seemingly impossible questions have always been with us. 6,000 years ago (perhaps much longer ago than even that) great Sages looked for the answers. And found them. And told them. But these 11/

answers are beyond what words can even suggest. Poetry and religious insights can point to them but never reach them. Again, what to do? Though the Rishis could not give people answers that answer the emptiness, the longing, they could give directions 12/

so that others could find the Source for themselves and taste the waters that truly satisfy. If you are not ready to take to that trail - for I promise it is not easy and requires the utmost sincerity and dedication - there are still things you 13/

can do to find happiness: 1. Accept. Whatever has come to you, however it seems, was brought by Grace. Acceptance is the elixir that transforms poison into nectar. 2. Gratitude. God responds to pleas but returns gratitude 100 fold. 🌿🙏❤️