we have met the enemy and and the enemy is...

An exercise for today:

"Search  your mind for those against whom you hold what you regard as a major grievance. Some of these will be quite easy to find. Then think of the seemingly minor grievances you hold against those you like and even think you love. It will quickly become apparent that there is no one against whom you do not cherish grievances of some sort. This leaves you alone in all the universe." ACIM

An inside job...

We search for it in things and outer circumstances. It simply isn't there. I'm talking about happiness. We tend to think, "If I can get this or that I'll be happy;" "If I can change my outer circumstances, I'll be happy." It simply isn't true. Happiness is an inside job.

If life teaches us anything, it teaches us that everything is impermanent, transitory. That being true, once I get something, or change my outer circumstances, guess what? Things change. Since everything is transitory, it's futile to attach happiness to something outside ourselves --- either things or circumstances. We either find, create, or express happiness with what we have and where we are, or we simply will not have it. It's an inside job. It's that simple, but it's not easy.

Write it down...

As odd as it sounds, the brain is no place for serious thinking. When you have serious thinking to do, write it down.